"Leadership"

I’ve opened my eyes. Leadership is crucial. It seems obvious, but in my naiveté I thought a team of sufficiently-capable engineers could operate fairly independently of managerial/c-level leadership. You have Product give us some specs and we can make it happen… Until it doesn’t. Team dynamics and personal motivations can run smoothly until you have a crisis of some sort and the team either begins infighting to assuage guilt, or becomes shell shocked to the point of impotence. ...