In my environment yes because

• I have a suitable carrot (the keys to the bosses drinks cabinet and the ability to sign expense forms).
• I have a suitable stick (I contribute to their appraisals).
• I practice what I preach.
• Our projects come back to haunt us and when they haunt the person performing the exorcism may not necessarily be the person who originally wrote the code.

I stress that the projects that come back to haunt do so, not because of poor quality, but because we deal with government projects and tend to get repeat business requiring reworking due to fundamental changes in requirements.

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He was not wholly unware of the potential lack of insignificance.