I had a stint as a manager in my company at which i miserably failed. Team started leveraging technologies I didn't understand and some developer suddenly develop consistent passive aggressive attitude toward me which i had to deal with. Upper management eventually scrapped the project and critisized choice of technologies to build the project.

I survived.

Then my manager gave me a budget to hire outside consultants to do project.

I greatly succeeded in that because i didn't have to play politically correct diplomacy and follow infinite "proper" BS processes, standups, babysitting team, sprints, do agile scrum crap, etc...

Basicaly i found consultants, negotiated rate to fit available budget and told them to do shit or else.

They came back with shit done.

I reported to my boss that shit is done and ready for more.

Rinsed and repeat.

Skunkworks does wonders.