How to Deal With Difficult People on Your Teams

Humans are social creatures who seek personal validation based on how others interact with them. We feel good and important when others share our belief system and dejected when there's a conflict of opinions.

It's then natural to want to work with people who are just like us, our clones.

So, every once in a while when we come across people who do not value our inputs, crush our ideas, ignore what we have to say, act as a know-it-all, seem to find pleasure in criticism, satisfaction in creating chaos and look for the negative side of things, it upsets us.