Notions, ideas and comments from readers ... You provided good advice to the first question you responded to in this article (Paperclip counter). I would like to add another question that might be asked of the business executive in the third option: "What language should I speak to get through to the new CIO?". Your poster has indicated that he has tried to communicate to the new CIO, but it may just be t Notions, ideas and comments from readers …You provided good advice to the first question you responded to in this article (Paperclip counter). I would like to add another question that might be asked of the business executive in the third option: “What language should I speak to get through to the new CIO?”.Your poster has indicated that he has tried to communicate to the new CIO, but it may just be that the old methods he used with the now-retired CIO just don’t work with the new boss. Perhaps your poster needs to change his approach. Of course, in the interaction between your poster and the business executive, perhaps this issue will come up and be addressed. It’s just another angle to get past the problem. Brian MillerManagement by Objectives, Management by Walking around … and now Management by Color-Code:“Through Web services and XML people can now take an org chart and tie it to back-end systems and pull up last month’s review scores for a certain division, and maybe color code them so you can see quickly who are the strongest and weakest performers.” — Jason Bunge, MS’s Visio’s product manager as quoted by Ed Scannell in /article/03/05/20/HNvisio_1.html . An incredible time saver. No need to worry about objectives, ranking criteria, the validity of those rankings, or any of a thousand other hard problems. Just look for the red blobs. (Or was it blue that meant substandard? Whatever.) Even better than Power Point to isolate management from reality.Charles McLane Bob’s Last Word:Brian … under many circumstances I’d agree with you. Unless “Rotting on the Vine” was just making it all up, though, the new CIO doesn’t know what mainframes and servers are, and considers counting paperclips to be a valid IT strategy.Clearly, the new CIO is a menace … Charles, thanks for bringing yet another bit o’nonsense to our attention. It’s yet more evidence that way too many leaders in America today consider nuance and nuisance to by synonyms. Among the very many flaws is the bizarre notion that different managers in different parts of a company show any consistency at all in how they rank employees.Let’s all hope our competitors buy into this idea!– Bob ——– Technology Industry