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II Four Steps to Innovate

When formulating your plan, make sure it's the right plan for your company, your team, and the times. Don't bring what you did at your last job and just impose it on your new team.

Collaborate with your leadership team, and get the right answer together. The same advice goes for this book—it should be used to inform, not direct, your actions. When bringing a new concept forward, take the time to explain the why. If it's a technique you had prior success with, tell the story: explain why it worked and what results were obtained. This could take less than 10 minutes and make all the difference in the world.

In building and executing your plan, it is essential that you establish and communicate expectations, trust, and values.

If you're currently in the market for a new CIO role, you mustn't overpromise during your interview. Even if you were wildly successful in your previous position, it's going to take time to succeed in your new role. Setting expectations too high is a rookie mistake that will be hard to overcome. Straight talk about what it takes to turn around a struggling IT Department will improve your chances of getting and succeeding in the role. If they're expecting the impossible, it's time to move on to the next interview.