" So after that I had a new rule. If I’m hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I’m in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that’s a rule I still follow today. "

― Robert Greene , Interviews with the Masters: A Companion to Robert Greene's Mastery