So you're an IC suffering under "incompetent management". Yeah sometimes you just can't work around this, but often times you can learn to sell your ideas better to those specific people. Maybe they don't jive with your delivery. Change it.
If you speak the language of revenue, you can rationalize almost anything that will grow it responsibly.
If the language of revenue and various delivery tactics still don't convince your management, then it's time to leave.
I too struggle with focusing on the negative sometimes, so I constantly encourage myself (and the author and others who are feeling similarly) to redouble efforts to optimistically communicate in the language of revenue.
If you speak the language of revenue, you can rationalize almost anything that will grow it responsibly.
If the language of revenue and various delivery tactics still don't convince your management, then it's time to leave.
I too struggle with focusing on the negative sometimes, so I constantly encourage myself (and the author and others who are feeling similarly) to redouble efforts to optimistically communicate in the language of revenue.