A team has its dynamics. It is difficult to join a team if you have a self assigned mission from the get go. The author seemed to have done that. The author wa

A team has its dynamics. It is difficult to join a team if you have a self assigned mission from the get go. The author seemed to have done that. The author was also smarter before he was empathetic. When he saw someone become touched after the criticism he put forth, he should have changed pace. And changed focus. Instead of focusing on the critiques, he could have focused on the outlying problems contributing to those critiques. Instead of ignoring the responses everyone made to good suggestions, he could have been more accepting and started to beat the same drum. Point is to find common ground first. Solutions come second.