I think the word missing from this is 'market'. Good leadership identifies issues or opportunities in markets, builds something useful, and most importantly, m

I think the word missing from this is 'market'. Good leadership identifies issues or opportunities in markets, builds something useful, and most importantly, markets and sells into the domain. Having worked on both sides, I would say that understanding markets and being able to sell into them makes almost Engineering seem pedantic. This 'gathering requirements for Engineers' is an 'engineering centric' way of viewing things. I mean you have to take some perspective on it, but I think that the issues is going to revolve around 'the hard part'. If you're building new Nuclear tech, the Eng. is going to be a 'hard part'. Otherwise, it's the money, markets and selling that is 'the hard par' and the Devs. are bit more like Construction workers but with more thought in the process.