Let’s face it, as CIOs we’d all like to be liked. We enjoy the parts of  our job that are fun and which have to do with the importance of  information technology. 

It makes us happy when another large IT project  is successfully rolled out. However, life is life and part of our job is that when there is bad news to be delivered,  we’re the ones who have the job to share the news with the people who  work for us. Nothing that I can tell you will ever make this an easy  thing to do. 

However, it turns out that there are ways that you can  deliver information like this in ways that turn out to be less stressful  for you and, perhaps, just a little bit more comforting for the people  that you have to deliver it to.