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The leadership shelf is full. Frameworks, playbooks, and listicles promising to transform how you align IT with the business, manage up, and finally earn your place in the C-suite. Most of it recycles the same conventional wisdom that has failed to resolve the CIO’s core problem for forty years: The role was promised as a high priest of technology transformation but set up to be a bureaucratic troll. Mark Schwartz, author of A Seat at the Table and The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy, has spent decades watching organizations resist exactly the change they claim to want. He knows the advice. He knows why it doesn’t work.
The Real CIO is something different. Drawing on character and effectiveness rather than productivity hacks, Schwartz introduces the impeccable CIO: a technology executive guided by integrity, courage, clarity, humility, and practical wisdom—not as ideals, but as the only reliable foundation for navigating contradictory expectations, closing the credibility gap, leading the enterprise into the world of AI, and building organizational influence without direct authority.
With expertise from AWS’s pioneering AI work, Schwartz shows how it changes the CIO’s responsibilities and powers. Based on his work advising leaders at some of the world’s largest enterprises, Schwartz offers a rigorous, philosophically grounded framework for responsible AI leadership, for stopping IT from being seen only as a cost center, and for leading digital transformation that actually sticks.
The CIO paradox is real. Every technology leader who has felt it knows that more advice—more alignment workshops, more stakeholder mapping, more agility frameworks—is not the answer. The Real CIO is the first book that doesn’t pretend otherwise. It is also, finally, the one worth reading.
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Series: The Real CIO: A New Approach to Technology Leadership
Writer: Schwartz, Mark
Release Date: 2027-05-11
FOC Date: 2027-04-06
Page Count: 352
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SKU: 9781966280385
Barcode: 9781966280385
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