Sign of BAD CIOs

1. They overpromise and underdeliver.

2. They can't sum up their IT strategy into an elevator speech, nor can they articulate the company's vision.

3. They don't take ownership of critical issues, nor do they demonstrate accountability for problems, but they're quick to take credit for successes.

4. They can't motivate their staff and don't pay attention to building teams inside the IT group.

5. They can't attract and retain IT staff.

6. Instead of working on projects that make meaningful contributions to the company's bottom line, they focus either on projects that will look good on their résumés or on sucking up to executives by giving them Blackberrys and new laptops with wireless Internet connections.

7. They overemphasize project management to the point where 90 percent of the timeline for projects is given over to planning and only 10 percent to implementation.

8. They view project management as a waste of time.

9. They can't prioritize projects.

10. They give staff responsibility for projects but no authority, direction or support. When the individual and the project fail, they publicly berate the individual.

11. They espouse a different management practice every month.