Joanne Brennan, a former CIO who also led an enterprise resource-planning (ERP) consulting practice and the IT practice at
a finance and IT senior staffing company and who is currently doing
independent consulting, says, “If I go back to the corporate world, I
would negotiate. I have different ideas today. One of the things I
believe in is the mutual benefits of telecommuting. This is different
from five years ago. For a long time, I felt compelled to put the company first, and I know that I often shortchanged my family. I reset
priorities after 9/11. A lot of our beliefs and priorities changed. I
often shortchanged my family in the past.”