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Re:Be likeable or get fired by cryptonector on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:51PM (#16886903)
Right. OP was providing leadership. Sometimes that means stepping on others' toes, and how they react is key. That team was a problem anyways.
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Re:Be likeable or get fired by ska on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:03PM (#16887031)
That's not what leadership means, unfortunately. Being right in a non-productive way is also a failure in leadership.

At the end of the day, if you do want to provide technical leadership, the skills to understand the team and how to interact with them effectively are at least as important as the technical skills.

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Re:Be likeable or get fired by watwut on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:38PM (#16887375)
If you cant achieve change, camt negotiate and cant explain, you are not providing leadership. Regardless of whether you are right.
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Re:Be likeable or get fired by schraeds on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:01PM (#16887015)
Maybe that's the problem; he wasn't hired or looked to as a leader, or as previous commentators have said, he hadn't earned the respect of the team yet.
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