Why do good IT leaders don't stay? Now we are loaded with just vendor managers and project managers.
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Because most competent IT leaders want to build a team, to have healthy culture, to have reasonable work/life balance, to have impactful work that they can actually execute on.
You can't do that when the business constantly just forces the lowest cost technical people in the lowest cost of living areas. Half the people in the Cincy GO are the only person in NA on their entire team. Driving into an office to sit in a box on teams calls all day is soul crushing. Pretending timezones don't matter is soul crushing. Watching your technical people get replaced by lower cost, worse versions year after year after year is soul crushing.
The only people who stay are the lifers who don't have any other options, because anybody who knows what this is won't hire them.
Ofcourse. Vendor Manager cult vs leaders who are technical?? Hard to find someone technical if they spent their entire career at PG. You must be talking about external hires. Very little external hires stick around. Too much favoritism.