Corporate IT & the Leadership Paradox

With over a decade of experience in consulting, one can see the leadership paradox, especially in corporate IT departments.

Corporate IT executives and managers often move into consulting to embrace their experience while negating the office politics, while many middle managers move into corporate IT from Big 4 consulting firms.

Furthermore, many corporate IT shops ship out work to consulting firms instead of training their own people, while many consulting firms leverage people more junior than their client's staff.

Add to that, the reticence for IT shops to send junior managers to leadership training, and we see a revolving door of poor leaders who focus on leveraging external parties to get the work done.

No wonder IT outsourcing is so strong.