Our engineering team has this brilliant senior developer who everyone respects technically but who shuts down any process discussion and makes people afraid to ask questions in code reviews. I'm the tech lead and I've been trying to manage around his personality for eight months instead of addressing it because I'm scared of losing him and scared of the confrontation.
More people experience this than they realize.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
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