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Is anyone else tired of hearing about "earning the trust of the CEO"? Where's the chatter about CEOs earning the trust of their staff?

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Yea this seems pretty bizarre, I mean I guess I'd expect it from this site, but the solution seems like it's advocating placing the blame on the engineer(s) (bad at estimations, too technical, not good at explaining repeatedly and in childspeak, write better code).

Not to mention the amazing advice of having telepathy so that you can explain things in line with the (models in her(CEOs) head).

And what if that model is totally wrong? Do we let the models continue to drift so we can keep the CEO happy? Should Scotty be cool with Kirk demanding he wash the sails?

Sometimes it's the graviton stabilizer. Sure, I can say "for technical reasons" to keep the CEO from getting the brain ouchies, but now no one has any idea of what's wrong and the CEO distrusts me because they think I'm making up vague excuses.

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