It is so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day business of managing campus information technology. It is a fast-moving environment, fraught with large challenges and difficult hurdles. It involves machines, people, and scarce resources, not to mention the politics of it all. Managing IT can be so consuming that CIOs can sometimes forget that their real job is to be a leader. But the leadership of the CIO may be the very thing that the institution needs most in order to fulfill its own goals and aspirations.