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How teams handle brilliant but disruptive members

Our project team has one member who consistently dominates discussions and dismisses input from others, but they also produce excellent work and have crucial expertise. The rest of us have started having side conversations to work around them, which feels dishonest but addressing it directly hasn't worked and management seems oblivious.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual talent is undermining collective effectiveness while authority figures remain unaware.

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