But how do you know what the management perception is of whiat is currently considered to be 'the right problem' vs 'side-quest'? To what extent is that subjective and manipulable? Or that everyone in the management chain is fighting to maximize their perceived contribution to the former and minize their perceived contribution to the latter?
Without knowing the context, it's impossible to tell whether the key word in your sentence is 'perceived' or 'achieving' or 'focus'. Or what set of people shape the perceptions. Or on what KPI. Or what if there aren't even clear metrics. Most engineers like working on designing things, not executive palace coups.
(Corollary: have you never seen a group or entire dept get sidelined by being assigned something that they're officially told is important but at some point is publicly/secretly determined not to be, at some murky point up their management chain? What happens when the Director, VP, CXO are changed, perhaps multiple times, in a project?)
Without knowing the context, it's impossible to tell whether the key word in your sentence is 'perceived' or 'achieving' or 'focus'. Or what set of people shape the perceptions. Or on what KPI. Or what if there aren't even clear metrics. Most engineers like working on designing things, not executive palace coups.
(Corollary: have you never seen a group or entire dept get sidelined by being assigned something that they're officially told is important but at some point is publicly/secretly determined not to be, at some murky point up their management chain? What happens when the Director, VP, CXO are changed, perhaps multiple times, in a project?)