I’m quoted in a detailed article just published by Information Week.

“IT execs—CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs—are experiencing unprecedented mental health strain. So are their teams. What can they do to address the problem?”— Richard Pallardy

The answer is to think more broadly and create an environment that’s able to address personal and interpersonal issues. This is contrary to both the management, training, and personal styles of information technology, which is basically a branch of engineering.

Business environments are changing. The combination of expanding markets, conflicting agendas, the extension of computers into people’s lives, and the upsetting of traditional hierarchies is causing chaos. We see this politically, economically, socially, and personally…

I encourage people to engage with disorder, because that’s where things are happening that you don’t understand, and that’s where you need to be involved.

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