I think Spolsky would agree. And my style is similar to his - Management Fiat is not the way to go, but it is my job to help ask the right questions to move the

I think Spolsky would agree. And my style is similar to his - Management Fiat is not the way to go, but it is my job to help ask the right questions to move the disagreeing engineers to find the right solution. Sometimes all it takes is having the two folks explain their positions, a la rubber-ducky-debugging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)