When Smart People are Bad Employees
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Why Netflix Doesn’t Tolerate Brilliant Jerks
Brilliant Jerks in Engineering
Be Kind
It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar
What Do You Do With the Brilliant Jerk?
Problematic employees: When to hold on and when to fire them
In high-growth startups, learning to assess talent is a critical skill. Here are five personas you should learn to recognize and manage.
When Brilliant Minds Become Brilliant Jerks
Brilliant Jerks, Part 2
In the first part of this article I characterized brilliant jerks—those highly regarded people who treat others poorly. In this part I will focus more on the handling of any jerks you encounter. …
A Toxic Paradox
Everyone is an adjustment. When you're interacting with anyone, you leave the core you and become slightly them. This is not a betrayal of who you are, this is the middle ground we define between any two people. It's a place of compromise so we can communicate. There are those people with whom this
Hacker News Discussion
Why it’s a Mistake to Hire Superheroes
You haven’t hired someone who thrives in chaos. You’ve hired someone who sows chaos. Shit.
You Won’t Brilliant Your Way Out of This