Why Don't More CIOs Become CEO?

jcatcw writes "Thornton May is mystified by the very small number of Fortune 500 companies that led by former CIOs. "Knowing what we know about CIOs — that is, that most are smart, hardworking, supremely aware of how the business works and increasingly savvy regarding the workings of external customers' minds — the failure of more CIOs to become CEO has to be one of the biggest mysteries of our age.""

Proficiency at ....

[ehaggis]

...Doom 3 is not considered a mandatory CEO skill.

Elementary, My Dear Watson

[RyoShin]

CIOs have been unable to escalate to the CEO position because they cannot synergize the corporate enterprise environment into a sigma six solution in a manner that evasperates the board and homogenizes the company.

I'm pretty certain I made up a few words there, but if I said that to a CEO s/he'd likely nod and say "Why, you're absolutely correct!"

And that's why CIOs can't obtain the CEO position.

And pretty, athletic, musical, good handwriting

[toddhisattva]

...and CIOs are also, each and every special one of them, pretty and/or handsome, excellent athletes, superb musicians, and they have beautiful handwriting!

(This article is more self-serving than most political rallies....)

We're all gonna die?

[Vraylle]

Since IQ is based upon median intelligence (100 = median), wouldn't the list continue to expand as the lower end is knocked off and the median rises? Or is this the clever joke you were constructing? The only way to stay alive would be to maintain vastly more intelligence than the next most intelligent person, but that would only work until you're the last person alive, at which point your IQ would be 100 (based on a sample size of one) and you'd have to jump off a building. Or somesuch...gah!

Now I have a headache, thanks a lot.

Re:how about

[paeanblack]

Actually, 80% of CEOs never work as CEOs again...

Actually, 80% of CEOs never worked in the first place...

Re:how about

[kfg]

Actually, 80% of CEOs never work as CEOs again...

Well, they'll just have to learn to get by on their severance I guess.

KFG

Re:Who does the picking

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally someone said it. I am sick of the elitism.

Them - "But I have an B.S. in (blah) engineering"

Me - "your design still sucks. give your degree back"

Re:Why dont more {X} become {Y}

[sjwaste]

Don't worry about blank. Let me handle blank.

Re:We're all gonna die?

[McFadden]

I suspect anyone who thinks it's a good idea to kill off everyone with an IQ less than 130 is not as wise as he thinks he is.

I dunno. It would remove the president, the majority of his administration and most of the people who voted him in, in a single stroke. I can see the merits.