But the expansion of the role beyond overseeing back-office technology has also required those executives to develop a more diverse skill set that allows them to understand the needs of not just the IT team, but all business units across an enterprise.
"'I'd encourage them to raise their hands more for stretch assignments and to ask for more," she said. "It's not as risky as it feels." Wassenaar was hesitant, for example, to leave VMWare to become chief information officer at New Relic. At the software firm, she made "very good money" and "had moderate independence." It took a friend pressing her on these concerns, asking questions like "Are you trying to tell me you couldn't get another big company job if that didn't work out?", to put them in context.
You need to "make sure that you're getting sponsorship across a diverse set of people in power," she said.
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