This is the second best advice I ever got in my career. The best one was still "Listen to reports when they come to you, even if you're focused on your own tas

This is the second best advice I ever got in my career. The best one was still "Listen to reports when they come to you, even if you're focused on your own task." I wish there was this kind of advice for dealing with unreasonable CTOs and VPEs. I got lucky in my last job, but it took years.