Having the CIO job is tough. Because of the importance of information  technology, the company expects you to be able to accomplish a great  deal.

 The world in which you work, IT, is constantly changing and it can  be quite difficult to keep up with everything that is going on. This is  why you need to have the best team of people working in your IT  department. Finding those people, getting them to agree to join your IT  department, and then convincing them to stay is a full time job on top  of everything else that you are expected to do. 

Recent studies have  shown that if you want your staff to stay, it have more to do with the managers that you have working for you than anything else.