Humility is different from being submissive. Humility is accepting you can be wrong, or what you do is suboptimal, etc. Being submissive is conceding argument

Humility is different from being submissive. Humility is accepting you can be wrong, or what you do is suboptimal, etc. Being submissive is conceding arguments even if you know you are right and you can prove it. Companies are not democracies. Companies claim to be meritocracies but are not. Companies are ultimately governed by authority. Authority defines what is truth and what is not: authoritative truth. Each authoritative truth is a fork from reality, and is in a way, a form of fiction. Authoritative truth can go against logic, applied science, empirical evidence, common sense, ethics and morality. It does not have to be correct, authority makes it correct. Because of this, engineering and authority are completely opposite things. An authority with humility will try to lead the team towards understanding things from first principles. An authority without humility will be creating and expanding on authoritative truth.