It's helpful when leaders share the same conditions as their employees, but not necessary. It's absolutely necessary that they are able to put themselves in the

It's helpful when leaders share the same conditions as their employees, but not necessary. It's absolutely necessary that they are able to put themselves in their employees shoes. In this case I was able to walk him through how developers work, and the importance of having long periods of unbroken concentration. I also talked about the mythical man-month which he was familiar with, so he understood that 3 focused engineers can crush 5 distracted engineers, not just in individual productivity but in reducing the chain of communications that slows everything in a project down.