One of the things I have to fight the most for and that I think is what allows me to work well: “Regularly get in your team’s shoes”. Call it Genba, or Fingerspitzengefühl but the most important thing is to stay in touch with your team’s day to day reality.

https://www.okayhq.com/blog/status-quo-is-so-hard-to-change-in-engineering-teams