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Scenario

How to handle a brilliant team member who shuts down others

Our engineering team has a brilliant senior developer who dismisses every idea that isn't theirs and the rest of us have started self-censoring in technical discussions. I'm the tech lead and I know I should address this but they're genuinely the smartest person on the team and I'm worried about losing them or making them defensive.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're sacrificing team psychological safety to avoid confronting someone whose talent you believe makes them irreplaceable.

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