The CIO is both the most crucial and most volatile expert to companies today. Navigating change and crafting transformation require the CIO expertise. Yet, there are still questions being resolved as to place and function. Frankly, as a CIO, we need each other. Creative alliances and the sheer force of contending for each other is the only path through to success. So much else contends against us.
The CIO Mastermind's Peer Advisory Groups serve as a catalyst for your ability to work boldly, rest easily and maximize opportunity. It is driven by two lasting benefits.
- You know someone who knows whom you need to know.
- You know someone who knows what you need to know.
We understand “it’s who you know.” But that is rarely a direct line. Most often, referral is the road to critical relationship. Have you ever been in transition? Are you looking for the right place that will leverage your best skill and leadership? Are you tired of being disappointed by vendors who underperform?
In the group, the group’s network is your network. The blank slate is filled with connections and intersections; the many roads to choose become select and ventured into with greater confidence.
As well, the CIO Mastermind's Peer Advisory Group is a knowledge-base, peer learning forum. What is learned is expanded beyond technical skillsets. Today’s CIO/CTO requires inner leadership, political savvy, external and internal customer management and innovative application of old and new ways. No one person has mastered all that is expected of you; but someone has mastered the main thing confronting you.
The majesty of the Peer Advisory Group is a group that contends for each other. It is more than encouragement. It is more than theory or skill application. The Peer Advisory Group is a carefully curated alliance that is not satisfied unless every member is experiencing the best in their life and career.
Join the only in-person CIO peer-to-peer advisory group - the CIO Mastermind Peer Advisory Group.
If you are outside of Denver, we would be honored to lead a mastermind group in your area! Contact me and we will move forward together.
“We cling to the myth of the Lone Ranger, the romantic idea that great things are usually accomplished by a larger-than-life individual working alone. Despite the evidence to the contrary, we still tend to think of achievement in terms of the Great Man or Great Woman, instead of the Great Group…We have to recognize a new paradigm: not great leaders alone, but great leaders who exist in a fertile relationship with a Great Group. In these creative alliances, the leader and the team are able to achieve something together that neither could achieve alone. The leader finds greatness in the group. And he or she helps the members find it in themselves. The need to do so is urgent…Conventional wisdom about leadership and teams continues to glorify the leader at the expense of the group. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.”
— Warren Bennis
