Maintenance Supervisors? Are they key to success?

My belief is Maintenance Supervisors are the key to effective maintenance work execution and thus hold the key to optimizing equipment reliability.

If you agree, how do we make this happen? How do you engage maintenance supervisors to motivate their maintenance team to be efficient and effective?

Does your organization have and follow effective Work Procedures?

Effective work procedures have been at the source of many major failures through out history in the Oil and Gas Industry. I think the problem is two fold, one, if we have a effective procedure does anyone follow it? second, if we don't have a repeatable procedure why not?

What are your thoughts? Tell me what you think.