My biggest bugbear is higher ups don’t take gut feeling from people who have done engineering for decades seriously and so undermine their strategy with assumpt

My biggest bugbear is higher ups don’t take gut feeling from people who have done engineering for decades seriously and so undermine their strategy with assumptions that could be corrected if they listened downward. It’s a trope: the company that turned from the brink when management listened to staff, perhaps cutting out middle management as a comms layer, but its never been my experience that anyone wants to do that. They’ll hear you but listen and take seriously? How many companies deny tech debt paydown but then have people working on badly researched feature ideas that add no value to the business.