That doesn't always get what you want, though. I've been working on a terrible project and even my managers know how bad it is, yet despite all their efforts to

That doesn't always get what you want, though. I've been working on a terrible project and even my managers know how bad it is, yet despite all their efforts to explain this to senior executives(need more people to work on it, more time to refactor, etc.), they simply don't want to hear it.