Is your job to generate stunning results that drive the top line?

Is your job to generate stunning results that drive the top line? Is your job to keep the trains running on time?

The focus makes a difference. I want to do the former not the later.

CIOs have a tendency to believe that they are an overhead function. When you believe you’re overhead you operate differently than when you perceive yourself as leading a P&L.

— Ray Barnard, CIO, Fluor