ABSTRACT
Traditional IT management guidance advocates that
the CIO exercise transparency as a good best practice.
Machiavelli believed that first and foremost, a leader
must be armed. As we discussed earlier, information
is a powerful weapon that a CIO can use to protect
himself against the untrustworthy. But a weapon can
be turned against those who wield it. CIOs with Dove
styles often load the gun of information, and then they
are shocked when their colleagues shoot them with it.
