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2. Make decisions amidst uncertainty
“We are in the fourth industrial revolution, a time marked by the interconnection of physical, biological and digital worlds. As these worlds integrate, intelligent ecosystems form and give rise to ‘big bang disruptions,’ thus transforming entire systems, creating and destroying entire product lines, markets and ecosystems overnight,” said Jenai Marinkovic, vChief Technology and Security Officer with Tiro Security, and a member of the ISACA Emerging Trends Working Group.
“In the near-normal where disruptions such as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of diverse emergent technologies, predicated by rapid changes in business strategies, the managers of tomorrow need to become more comfortable with decision making in conditions of extreme uncertainty. IT managers who become ‘design thinkers’ are able to leverage design concepts such as empathy, ideation, and prototyping to identify and employ the alternative ideas and solutions
The stories are out there: the smart co-workers who get in their own way instead of getting ahead.
CISOs know them, too. One remembers a brilliant employee who liked to remind others how smart she was and how she deserved way more money than she was making. Another recalls a talented staffer who did exactly what was required, but nothing more. Neither made it very far, as their bosses finally had enough of their drag on morale and decided to let them go.
Those are just two of the many ways to kill your career, say CISOs, career coaches and executive consultants. Some actions, such as illegally accessing computer systems, are obviously fireable offenses, while numerous others will simply halt any upward mobility.