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Re:When Smart People are Bad Employees by keeptrying on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @11:25PM (#2278441)
This kind of guy usually needs to lead or he is probably smarter than everyone else in the room.
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Re:When Smart People are Bad Employees by dpritchett on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @03:45PM (#2281222)
Quite so. The project manager comes to you with an underoptimized set of step-by-step instructions; you help him to give you a minimal set of defensible business goals instead.

Next step: meet those goals in the most effective way you know how.

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