As head of sales and marketing, Suresh didn’t need his CEO to buy into the process or give his permission to start the discovery process. He was in charge. Is

As head of sales and marketing, Suresh didn’t need his CEO to buy into the process or give his permission to start the discovery process. He was in charge. Is this some kind of business rule I'm ignorant of? No matter what my title says I'm in charge of, if I start doing something I already know my boss doesn't want me to do I'm going to be in trouble. It's all well and good to say "Fuck you, the paper says that was my job" but that's not going to help you if the boss decides you need to go.