If I were the betting kind (and I am), I would bet you have felt like a fraud at least once in your professional life. Double or nothing you know someone who feels this way a lot. Haven't you noticed, by the way, that it's often the best people-the smartest, most accomplished, most competent-who feel their every success was an incredible turn of luck, that they've been tricking everyone around them, and that any moment now that luck will turn and they will be found out?

enterprising, adj.: marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects

entrepreneurial, adj.: willing to take risks in order to make a profit

When I began my conversation with Jim Anderson, founder of Blue Elephant Consulting who has worked with CIOs for over 20 years, I had just a single question: What is the deal with CIOs?

McKinsey on "the new normal" for CIOs

McKinsey & Co. held its annual online IT survey from October 13 to October 26, 2009, with responses from 444 executives representing all industries, regions, and company sizes.

We would all like to see things get back to normal—whatever normal means to you. It could be a job with a sense of security, a retirement fund that is achieving robust gains, or a house that is appreciating steadily year after year. But many observers doubt that the current downturn is just another business cycle adjustment. In a McKinsey Quarterly  article published in March, Ian Davis, the worldwide managing director of McKinsey & Company, said we are witnessing a “restructuring of the economic order” and we are not likely to return to the normal of recent years. He called this the “new normal” that will be “shaped by a confluence of powerful forces—some arising directly from the financial crisis and some that were at work long before it began.”