Moments of Truth (When You Accelerate Your Growth)
In every CIO and CISO role, there will be a moment of truth, where you can establish yourself within the role by your own actions. This will be a moment when you are truly tested and you may not feel ready and comfortable in your role, but you are faced with a challenge.
How you act and show your leadership will be a defining moment for you, and this will start to become part of your brand so that you can operate effectively under pressure. In essence, these moments are examples of using your behavior to provide leadership that makes a real difference. In these scenarios, there are some situations where you can accelerate your growth.
The fundamental question that is to be addressed in this chapter is as follows:
How do moments of truth accelerate my growth?
In this chapter, I have outlined a few examples of actions that I took in my first 90 days that helped me be successful in my new CIO and CISO roles. These actions...
