I disagree. I think they have a wealth of talented engineers. What they need(ed) are people with vision Vision doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens within th

I disagree. I think they have a wealth of talented engineers. What they need(ed) are people with vision Vision doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens within the wider cultural context of the organisation. A technical lead, a project lead, a manager - they are all affected by the environment they are in. If you spend all your time fighting politics and trying to shore up demoralised engineers, you are not going to waste your time dreaming about ponies and rainbows. If you want an analogy, you can take the world's greatest general, but if you drop him in a WW-I trench, he is just cannon fodder.