IT is a major part of all businesses. I consider it to be the backbone of a business. In order for IT to contribute to the overall success of a business, they have to be completed involved in all aspects of the business decisions. IT is very diverse and has a lot of different technical areas. So, there just can't be one leader in IT. Different personnel have different areas of expertise. Everyone in IT must be a leader so that all of these technical areas have a voice in the business decision-making. This quote is stating just that. Everyone in IT must step up and take a leadership role to support the business. Everyone in IT has to contribute to the business strategies and make sure the business reaches its goals. A business must establish a supportive work environment. Everyone must be open-minded and willing to listen to new ideas from there colleagues. The business will increase its efficiency when they have all of IT acting as leaders.A business must be willing to take the approach that makes them the most competitive in the business market. If they stay on the track of making sure that there whole IT staff takes a leadership role, they will definitely be competitive in their line of business. For those companies that don't have their whole IT staff as leaders, it will be hard for them to stay competitive. They will be at a disadvantage because they are not maximizing the technical knowledge they are paying for in there employees. 

Barton met the kid in a bar, Vinnie’s right after he became the CIO of IVK.  After many meetings in which Barton thought he was just a young, nerdy kid straight out of college, the kid turned out to be Jonathon Luce, a key player in the computer graphics industry. All along the kid, or Jonathon has been giving Barton advice to guide him along in his tenure as the CIO of IVK.  He has been there giving him key advice, pointers, and an outside perspective on the situations that he has been dealing with at IVK. Luce has been a mentor of sorts along the way that Barton has been offering a job to, while all along I think that Luce has been grooming Barton to become the CIO of an international bank. I don’t know if it is complete coincidence that they met; however, if Barton stays with IVK despite the job offer from Luce to work at his computer graphics company, the information and guidance that Luce has been giving him will pay off for IVK and for Barton’s career as the CIO of IVK. If he decided to leave and work for Luce, all of the guidance would have been for nothing as replacing a CIO and having that person take over all of the processes that Barton created and implemented will be useless and too time consuming. The kid has been giving Barton great ideas and helping him to see outside of IVK to keep their company competitive with the industry and to think ahead and progressively.

answer 1Simply put, the toolkit approach should be what all managers and supervisors should adopt when taking the lead on projects. The assumption of some managers is that you can go strictly off of your own knowledge and experiences to guide new projects and just apply your own knowledge. The toolkit approach suggests that managers should seek advice of others on their team and within their organization to add to the knowledge and perspective of how to guide a project.  In addition, the toolkit philosophy expresses that you can't just rely on your previous experiences and knowledge from other projects and assume that that knowledge is enough and the best approach to deal with the new project. Even if the project is similar to what you have led and dealt with in the past, it doesn't mean that the methodology you used previously will be the right approach this time around. In summary, I wholeheartedly agree with the toolkit method and think it's an approach that should be used in all project management. Don't assume old experiences will be fully applicable to new projects and always be willing to listen and obtain knowledge from other sources on your team.answer 2 I think that the kids toolkit approach to management is an approach that all IT managers should adopt. They need to be open, flexible, and willing to hear ideas from all staff including and maybe especially junior staff. Information technology is a rapidly changing field, stagnation will easily leave a company in the dust and belly up. By being flexible and open to new approaches to ideas, a company is able to stay fresh and competitive with the latest technologies that could ultimately alter the way that business is done within their company. Continuing to approach problems in information technology with the same methodical approach every single time is not always the correct approach for unique problems. Continuing to follow the same approach may in fact create new problems in information technology  Solving problems within the information technology field need to be unique to the situation at hand. The kids line about not using a hammer when you need a wrench is a perfect analogy for many current IT companies that use the hammer because they are following the same strategy that has worked for them in the past. It is able to get the job done, but it involves more labor, more hurt fingers along the way, and more damaged products because the correct tool was not used. In the end it ends up getting the job done if you’re lucky, but it leaves a lot of room for efficiency to be improved. This is a great analogy for problems in information technology as well.