...I once worked for an IT Director who terminated a heated debate with the words "Don't confuse me with the facts, (this) is what we're doing"...... (and it was a good decision).
The same Director, when I approached him with a certain amount of temerity but with entirely valid reasons, to recommend that I develop a major new system entirely against standing policy (set by him), let me get 30 seconds into my explanation before he said "You know what you're doing, go ahead". It was partially a matter of judgement, reputation and trust, and partly a matter of me having the b*lls to go and challenge his policy, and not very much at all to do with him understanding the detail.
He was one of the best senior managers I ever worked for, and I admired him a lot. (And the latter feeling was reinforced when I ran up against him a few years later, and was greeted with "You know, I should have worked harder at keeping my best people" ;-) )
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