* Your many successes are invisible; your few mistakes are highly visible.

* You are intimately involved in every facet of the business, yet you are considered separate and removed from it.

* You are accountable for project success, but the business has ownership.

"It's one of those 'You have to but you can't' situations," says David Hartley, CIO of Arch Coal (), "How do you insert yourself into the business and drive something you cant really own? If you drive it yourself, people will say, 'Why is this guy doing things to us?' "

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