<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc3f785b-0fb2-444e-af37-a1c6482e64da/03DD1EA4-EBEE-4E06-9F1F-1100D53E6389/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cioupdate.com/insights/article.php/3787096/Effective-Leadership-in-Tough-Times.htm" href="http://www.cioupdate.com/insights/article.php/3787096/Effective-Leadership-in-Tough-Times.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cioupdate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cioupdate.com/insights/article.php/3787096/Effective-Leadership-in-Tough-Times.htm"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Verdana">As the economic picture gets bleaker by the day, many CIOs are wondering just how they are going cope. Budgets will surely be cut at some point, staff may have to be let go, projects once deemed mission-critical may no longer garner the same support as in better times; basically, leading IT in a recession is going to be a new and bitter experience for many.</FONT></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><O:P><FONT face="Verdana"> </FONT></O:P></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Verdana">This was the theme of Ram Charan’s talk on Friday at </FONT><A href="http://www.ciohio.com/"><FONT face="Verdana" color="#0000ff">CIOhio</FONT></A><FONT face="Verdana">, an annual gathering of the midwest’s leading CIOs and business leaders hosted by <A href="http://www.techcolumbus.org/">TechColumbus</A>. Charan, a PhD and advisor to some of the biggest names in business—Coke, Nike, DuPont, Bank of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><ST1:PLACE>America</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>—said times are tough and they are only going to get tougher. This will lead to a lot of hard decision-making very soon; decisions most people are not happy making and most employees are not happy hearing. So, what do you do? </FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/03DD1EA4-EBEE-4E06-9F1F-1100D53E6389/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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