Our VP of Engineering ingrained in our team early on that if we were going to fail we were always going to fail forward. This started when the dev team had 7 people on it and has continued now that we have 40+. Many times when our team ran into problems, rather than having us rollback or revert, our VP always pushed us to figure it out and to continue pushing forward. Even if the CEO or others were breathing down his neck, he was our shield and he whole heartedly always believed we could do it. He probably believed more in us than we did sometimes and you know what, he was right. We could always figure it out and because we always have we have grown into an even stronger team than we ever thought we could be.
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Our VP of Engineering ingrained in our team early on that if we were going to fail we were always going to fail forward. This started when the dev team had 7 people on it and has continued now that we have 40+. Many times when our team ran into problems, rather than having us rollback or revert, our VP always pushed us to figure it out and to continue pushing forward. Even if the CEO or others were breathing down his neck, he was our shield and he whole heartedly always believed we could do it. He probably believed more in us than we did sometimes and you know what, he was right. We could always figure it out and because we always have we have grown into an even stronger team than we ever thought we could be.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
It seems like "acting as a shield" is a common positive attribute for leads to have.