Arrogance
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As a consultant, I frequently work with teams where at least one person is arrogant and refuses to listen to anyone else. My usual approach is to just ignore them and work around them. I have learned that going to their manager is just asking for trouble. I have seen El Corazon talk about people like this. How do you deal with such people?
Best wishes, Hans
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Having often been accused of arrogance I can tell you how others handle me. They ignore me, hoping I'll go away, then proceed to do whatever they're doing without my input. Sometimes they ask for my advice, which I provide freely, then they again proceed to do it their way. After the fact, when the job is FUBAR, they come back to me, and I fix it or do it over the way it obviously should have been done.
"I'm not Arrogant! Arrogance is a fault, and I haven't any."
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Find out what they are afraid of. Arrogance is a shield used to cover ignorance and insecurity.
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I'm just arrogant because I enjoy being a know-it-all PITA. ;) There's no insecurity in there whatsoever.
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Having often been accused of arrogance I can tell you how others handle me. They ignore me, hoping I'll go away, then proceed to do whatever they're doing without my input. Sometimes they ask for my advice, which I provide freely, then they again proceed to do it their way. After the fact, when the job is FUBAR, they come back to me, and I fix it or do it over the way it obviously should have been done.
"I'm not Arrogant! Arrogance is a fault, and I haven't any."
Roger Wright wrote:
"I'm not Arrogant! Arrogance is a fault, and I haven't any."
I have a fault - it's being surrounded by people who don't live up to my own high standards.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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As a consultant, I frequently work with teams where at least one person is arrogant and refuses to listen to anyone else. My usual approach is to just ignore them and work around them. I have learned that going to their manager is just asking for trouble. I have seen El Corazon talk about people like this. How do you deal with such people?
Best wishes, Hans
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I didn't know we worked together? Seriously, though, most often they have built themselves a little kingdom and any threat to their credibility results in a full fledged attack. If you, as a consultant, are forced to work with the hyper arrogant, who is also an idiot, you are in trouble. The best tactic is to maintain mature and professional attitude and do all correspondence via email with CC's to the supervisor. Any time you are confronted just say, "That is a good idea, let me think about it and get back to you" then follow up with a tactful email explaining just why the particular brain-fart in question is retarded, again with the CC.
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As a consultant, I frequently work with teams where at least one person is arrogant and refuses to listen to anyone else. My usual approach is to just ignore them and work around them. I have learned that going to their manager is just asking for trouble. I have seen El Corazon talk about people like this. How do you deal with such people?
Best wishes, Hans
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Three approaches depends on the relative strengths / political situation / personalities; 1) Ignore him - which may work or may only drive his opposition underground so he undercuts you behind your back. 2) Politely ask him (in front of the person that hired you if possible) why you were hired since he already had a solution? Offer to back out and let him do the project. He will have to; get on board with your solution, increase his workload and / or offend the boss. 3) Co-op him by suggesting he produce an alternative solution along the lines of his suggestions and offer to jointly test/benchmark the two solutions and incorporate the best of the best into the final product. Who knows, he might even have a better solution!