Timeline for How can I best handle a star performer on a small team who feels no one else is good enough?
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| May 26, 2015 at 18:30 | comment | added | user541686 | @PhilipKendall: It's not so much a question of whether the star performer can do all of the implementation; rather it's a question of whether the other people can contribute positively to the implementation -- hypothetically, if the other people just aren't good enough to do what needs to be done (maybe they break things more often than they fix them), then the problem that needs to be fixed is that the OP needs a better team. It doesn't automatically follow that the star performer necessarily has problems. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 11:27 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | He may be much better at some things than the others, he still won't be perfect and other people's opinions will be better now and then. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 10:39 | comment | added | Philip Kendall | Unless the star performer can actually do all the implementation on his own as well as all the design, then there's still a problem to be fixed, because the rest of the team will quit. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 7:12 | history | answered | user541686 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |