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How to address a brilliant but dominating team member

Our engineering team has a brilliant developer who dismisses every idea that isn't his in meetings and the rest of us have started just nodding along because fighting him is exhausting. We've become a team that pretends to collaborate while actually just implementing whatever he decides, and I'm realizing we're all complicit in this dynamic.

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Your team gave up pushing back on one person and now just does whatever he wants.

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