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When teams enable difficult high performers

Our engineering team has one person who consistently delivers but is impossible to work with and everyone walks on eggshells around them. We all know we're enabling it by working around their behavior instead of addressing it, but we're also terrified of losing their technical knowledge.

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You put up with a difficult teammate because you're afraid to lose their skills.

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