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Consider how the perspective of a director, in charge of a large team of engineers, can effect the entire engineering culture.

If this director has a more human and compassionate perspective, she might help push back on all feature requests to give her team ample time to fix the fail whale during the day because she sees how unfair and stressful it is that they are getting paged at night.

This is hyperbole, but another director with a more analytical bent he might push his staff to work more hours, work harder and smarter, to rewrite the problematic systems.

Perspective of leadership is extremely important.

But this applies to all teams that work collaboratively on solving problems.