| The problems here, to start with, are: - "senior" means a wide range of things to different people. - "engineer" means a wide range of things to different people. Some people are senior because they have technical skills, some are good with processes, some have years of experience, and others due to superficial traits associated with dominance (e.g: posture, voice pitch/amplitude/speech rate, verbosity, being good at interrupting others), some due to interviewing skills... or anything to be honest. This gives origin to a wide range of decision making processes: - from pragmatic to unpractical - from rational to dogmatic - from collaborative to competitive - from respectful to antagonistic - from constructive to unproductive If your discussions look like the "Argument clinic" from Monty Python, you've got a problem. If your discussions are toned down because noone wants to sound negative, you've got a problem. If all discussions end up with someone pulling rank, you've got a problem. Try to have: pragmatic, rational, collaborative, respectful, constructive discussions. And focus on the problem at hand, not the person. |