Sounds like you should try really hard to: 1) Not hire someone that is going to argue about every single decision 2) Fire them if you get to the case of 1. I

Sounds like you should try really hard to: 1) Not hire someone that is going to argue about every single decision 2) Fire them if you get to the case of 1. I have worked with quite a few "arguers" in my day. They all made good points. I am sure they were often right. But when it was 1v5 on the team for a particular decision, and our scrum master was making us having meetings for hours to resolve a stylistic difference that only 1 person agreed with.. blah. I cannot think of a better way to kill morale of an otherwise good team. Sure in an ideal world, the team would work together and make decisions. If it's not working and one guy is sticking out over and over.. it's time to cut your losses. I have never seen a construction crew where one bricklayer would refuse to lay bricks a certain way, because he read a blog that another way is better. Sometimes you just need to put your head down and do the task, not make an argument about it.