1. Cast a jaded eye on emerging technologies and modes of delivering technology.
2. Ignore investment in training and professional development.
3. Keep IT budgets totally separate from facilities.

via eweek

1. Let vendor upgrade timetables define your path of least resistance. 
2. Install all software with default settings.
3. Let users set de facto policy for password complexity and change interval.
4. Assume that hardware and software vendors will tell you what you need to know.
5. Never get out in the office and walk around with open eyes and ears.
6. Behave like a system administrator, not like a center of innovation and strategy.
7. Treat IT as a world unto itself.
8. Speak to the rest of the company only in numbers.
9. Act like an employee, not like a member of a professional community.
10. Keep doing things manually, again and again and again.

via eweek