I am of two minds. There are people who are persecuted because they are outsiders and for no other reason. A case in point is the story of Rosalind Franklin.

I am of two minds. There are people who are persecuted because they are outsiders and for no other reason. A case in point is the story of Rosalind Franklin. On the other side, some people are brilliant yet toxic. You can't have them work in a group because they will bring down the productivity of the group. You have to decide if they are so brilliant you will work with them anyway. I have had two experiences with this, one was successful and the other was unsuccessful. In the successful case I sat the guy down and told him that I couldn't fire the entire team and just keep him because I needed more than what he could produce. He agreed. I paired him up with a woman that he respected and the team of two formed an awesome team. She handled all of the interactions with outside teams. The second case was someone who was both brilliant and exceedingly insecure. No amount of counseling fixed his problem. No amount of telling him that he didn't need to insult people to get respect fixed his problem. Sigh. Sometimes you have to let people go. At the end of the day - the telling part of the story is the cowardice of Dora's advisors. The fact that they did not take their jobs seriously enough to become her mentors leads me to believe that they did not do their jobs.