Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesnt matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle -- when the sun comes up, youd better be running.
Why are leadership books so popular? Because leadership -- great leadership -- is rare today. Sadly, this is true nowhere more than in the IT industry.
Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy recently met with several groups, including leading IT practitioners in large and midmarket enterprises; progressive executives in federal, state and local government agencies; hiring managers at vendors; senior executives at IT service firms; deans of major business schools; presidents of community colleges; and strategic planners at staffing firms. The purpose: to ask about assumptions in their organizations that need to be exfoliated.