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Originally Posted by GlennD
When you're a CSO responsible for making sure your company (an insurance company) complies with HIPAA regulations, and face the possiblity of criminal charges and jail if your company doesn't comply, you listen to reason.
And you look for options - right now we're looking at third party solutions that allow us to manage devices even when they're owned by the end user. But that's not out of the box, obviously.
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In my 40 years of working in an organizational setting, I have never met an effective executive who was also entirely reasonable. Reasonable people become managers. Unreasonable people become executives. Truly reasonable people become technical specialists.
I don't mean to denigrate executives. Steve Jobs is an excellent example of an unreasonable executive, and face it, without Jobs, Apple would have been a second or third rate computer hardware manufacturer struggling for market share.
To an executive, a reason something can't be done is an excuse, not a reason. That's not to say that sometimes the excuse isn't valid - merely that a real executive is looking for reasons he can do things, not reasons he can't.
So...the executive tells you he wants something that can't be done, and you wind up figuring out how to do what can't be done - aka "looking for options".
Nothing wrong with that, so long as it doesn't spill over into illegality.