CIO vacations

Arun Gupta

Earlier this month I was confronted by a peculiar but innocent question from a young professional: “Do CIOs take real vacations, I mean, real long vacations with friends and family, free from all the worries of workplace and the fighting fires that keep them at work beyond the normal hours?”

I began to wonder about the question. The more I thought about it, the more it troubled me...

Read the full post at Arun Gupta’s blog, Oh I See! (CIO Inverted)

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