The product that we shipped in this time frame was successful. Upper management started paying some attention to professional satisfaction issues. We were able to hire new people to replace some that we had lost. We reorganized my group in a way that made sense, and which was professionally good for me. It doesn't seem like the same place.
People are happy at work now.
There is a lot of energy. The new engineers we hired don't have the level of experience of the engineers they replaced, but we have built a team that is the strongest team I have ever worked on. I can't put my finger on what made the difference, but it happened fast, and it is real. The most important, and most effective, way I relax is by playing with my kids. My jobs as an engineer and as a mother are so different from each other that each helps to renew me for the other.