This is key to fulfilling a senior tech leadership role and substantially what people expect to pay you for, if you ever wonder what the mysterious "impact" really means.

Sure, but I want everybody to do it. I've seen too many times where a person presented an idea to a group, the idea was publicly shunned by the group, then later a few members of the group discussed the idea in private amongst each other as good.

When I was the one who presented something poorly, I've even had people who publicly shunned it privately tell me they support the idea but the group rejects is so they reject it publicly too. This is dumb.

Wow are they that cuthroat? Sounds like politics not regular dev work. Must be Google I would guess :)

I got agree must be the Google

> If you recognize a good design presented poorly, be the one to stand up and present it well, otherwise you will be stuck with the bad one.

I do, and I can tell you the result: you will be branded as a troublemaker.