This isn't just a data engineering issue, it's the same across disciplines and industries. The problem is one of generalisation vs specialisation. The management track ultimately ends with overseeing different disciplines. The only viable answer i've seen is contracting / fractional.

I’d much rather have Boris…

Love Tarzan - one of the last pro law, pro business conservatives. He’d make a good PM.

Love it... Culture is the emergent behaviour of individual actions - it's bottom up, not top down. If you want to change the culture, don't create corporate values, change what people do & how they do it. First you must understand what they do...

Maybe the firmament in reality - is the Matrix?