About to leave the RAF, I was invited by my Staish to sign on to pensionable age. Set to leave in 4 months with an attractive job offer, I replied the 9 years was long enough to be told how to do my job, by people who didn't know what they were saying, and didn't know how to do their own. Somewhat to my surprise, he invited me to assess what would make the system work better, and where I thought the problems lay.
Sensible people in a senior position know that the information they receive is too often filtered through what people think they want to hear.