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Overstock.com's CIO's unethical act

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Was it good organizational politics for Overstock.com's CIO to act as he did? Why? Do you have any better political advice to extend to him?

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This solution is about a CIO who sent off a note to key business partners taking the heat for a wide range of technologies that weren't working out which proved to be premature.

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This is a story of a CIO who 'sent off a note to key business partners taking the heat for a wide range of technologies that weren't working out' (Schuman, 2005).

To reveal to the business partners prematurely the shortcomings of the company maybe appropriate but not a good politics for the ...

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