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AnonTechie writes "In business, intelligence is always a critical element in any employee, because what we do is difficult and complex and the competitors are filled with extremely smart people. However, intelligence isn't the only important quality. Being effective in a company also means working hard, being reliable, and being an excellent member of the team. Companies where people with diverse backgrounds and work styles can succeed have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining top talent over those that don't."
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Deal With the Brilliant Jerks You Work With
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(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 28 2014, @07:14AM
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Nerdfest on Friday February 28 2014, @07:40AM
Sadly, I'm not even that brilliant.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Daniel Dvorkin on Friday February 28 2014, @04:51PM
Which is generally true who think they're brilliant jerks: most of them are just jerks, and thinking they're brilliant is part of their jerkiness.
I've worked with a whole lot of very smart people over the years, who had the usual range of personality types, from jerks to saints and everything in between--and a select few I'd say were truly brilliant, who were without exception also really likeable. This is too small a sample size from which to draw conclusions, but there it is.
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(Score: 1) by similar_name on Friday February 28 2014, @06:09PM
On the other hand, people are people and defining brilliance is difficult. Jerks also may not lack instinct, but have instincts that are not compatible with those around them.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday February 28 2014, @05:04PM
I'd also like to thanks those who modded this informative. This is really starting to feel like home :)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by lx on Friday February 28 2014, @07:42AM
Repent and change your jerkish ways. Being a jerk is about how you treat others not about who you are.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @08:32AM
You think you can make people change because you say so? This is how you treat others? Guess what: you're the jerk.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Asshole on Friday February 28 2014, @09:01PM
In my experience, people who spout this nonsense are trying to control you for their own jerkish agenda. Don't fall for such bullshit and call it out as soon as you detect it! It's the only way they learn.
Make sure you're in good with management too or they will try and defeat you with accusations of verbal abuse!
(Score: 2) by TheloniousToady on Friday February 28 2014, @01:31PM
But when they start calling us "insecure", that's when we *really* know they're bewildered. Those others often get brilliance and insecurity confused. Personally, I think *they're* the ones who are insecure.
(Note to any humor-impaired modders: the above was satire, not flamebait.)
(Score: 1) by JeanCroix on Friday February 28 2014, @01:55PM
(Score: 1) by ikanreed on Friday February 28 2014, @05:06PM
I'm just a jerk.
(Score: 1) by Zipf on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:21AM
I am pretty sure I am the brilliant jerk. Didn't start that way. I like my peers. I like learning, the dialectic process, teaching, presenting, exploring. But I have come to view my boss as someone not in-the-know. I like my job and the topic. I keep four books (canonical and new) next to the toilet at home, read the latest research online, refine my knowledge of the available tools with my weekend hobbies. When I try to share interesting research, I get lines like, "you don't know this topic, I was doing this topic when you were in high school." When I was in high school I was doing research in physics, chemistry, building interfaces for search engines... hell when I was in high school, I was probably doing more interesting stuff ... ahh but then the jerk kicks in. Last week I was tasked with unfactorizing my code. But what if we needed to apply it to another product? "What other product?" he retorts, "this will be easier for the software guys to implement. Also, shorten the variable names and eliminate descriptions from the document." How the hell can this guy be my manager? I get so busy doing things wrong, which is actually fairly difficult, that I feel like I struggle to contribute to the firm. Does he want to focus on minutiae because he is afraid of running out of projects? .. gotta run... I gotta make sure the program doesn't print to STDERR should it throw opening a file because obviously redirection is an innovation. *sigh* I try to keep my attitudes private... and he has made it easy by forbidding me from speaking with others in the firm... Any advice from the veterans -- on how to take it?