And you need to be able to explain things to multiple layers of bosses/colleagues in a way that appeals to them. Your bosses care about money and promotions, yo

And you need to be able to explain things to multiple layers of bosses/colleagues in a way that appeals to them. Your bosses care about money and promotions, your colleagues/underlings care about better work/life balance and wage increases. Some c-level might respond to a product manager talking about quality with 'so, will it, and how, affect our bottom line positively; show me the money' while a developer might say 'dude, I just work here for my pay check; the task says do X, I do X, not X+Y, where I have to invent Y, because it's not in the task'. A presentation for both groups is most likely misaligned, but even different layers of management have different incentives, all driven by money, but I see that most people cannot put the push for quality in a package that appeals to mostly anyone, besides if they can show it will make more money; there is often just simply no visible correlation, and definitely not short term or on a large (enough) scale. I see it in the small (with small startups) with some designers; sweating (spending large amounts of time on) the small stuff that turns out to make 0 difference in money terms. Pride in your work/quality is something else than that, but you cannot explain this to your money/growth focused partners.