Ahh New York… There is no other city like it in the world.
I have been to cities all over the world but I consider New York home. There is an electricity that resonates from it and an excitement when you are in it.
I am a born and bred New Yorker. Born in Brooklyn, grew up in the burbs, worked in the city my entire professional career. There is more to being a New York CIO then knowing the best pizza joints or being able to curse like it is my first language.
Being a New York CIO means having to hustle every day. New York CIOs are always on the go. Rushing from meeting to meeting; doing things at 100mph. There is no slow pace for us. We operate at light speed. We talk fast, think fast, work fast. Anything less and we are left behind. We are product of the environment we work in and live it. A city that is always on – 24×7. Going from uptown to downtown in a blink of an eye.
We are the CIOs that have survived blackouts, blizzards, protests, strikes of varying sorts and 9/11. We tend to walk around with a little more gusto than those who have not experienced such events and can brag how we got through it. We wrote the book on disaster planning .
It is true, if you can make it here you really can make it anywhere….
A CIO's Voice 