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The difference between hero or primadonna can be environmental. When there are multiple experts for a department/tech stack, you get heroes. If the bus number i
by GLGirty 5y ago
The difference between hero or primadonna can be environmental. When there are multiple experts for a department/tech stack, you get heroes. If the bus number is one, a hero risks converting to a primadonna.
- kweinber 5y agoEnvironments don't create primadonnas. It's a matter of attitude and maturity. Being an expert doesn't make a person insufferable.
- varelse 5y agoIn my experience, insufferable mid-level management can bring out the worst in the best people, and then accuse them of being primadonnas because they are absolutely incapable of any self-reflection themselves.
- varelse 5y agoI find if you hire heroes with different skill sets you can avoid this dilemma. Or don't hire two Supermen. Hire Batman and Superman instead. But if a hero converts to a primadonna then they were never a hero. On the other hand if you're skimping a hero of the equipment and resources they told you they needed from day one, you're the a***.
- ratww 5y agoI agree. I'd add that having multiple experts in competition with each other (due to bad culture, bad communication or even just bad personality) also has the potential of turning heroes into primadonnas.