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Ever have somebody on your team who is brilliant, visionary, irreplaceable, but also impossible, demanding, and at times unbearable.

I call them the difficult genius.

And if you've led anything for more than five minutes, you've probably met one.

Hell, I am one.

I'm not calling myself a genius, just let's say, sometimes difficult.

And yeah, maybe you are one too.

So listen up here. Here's the uncomfortable truth. The traits that make someone exceptional often make them exceptionally difficult. Let me explain. After working with thousands of top

CEOs and Maverick entrepreneurs, there's a pattern that I've seen again and again.

High performers don't tiptoe. They charge headfirst into broken systems like a freight train.

Is it disruptive? Yes. Is it poorly received? Often. But here's what most people get wrong. It's not random and it's not always ego.

It's instinct. The difficult genius can't not fix what's broken, even if it means turning the

room upside down. I saw it firsthand when profiling Elon Musk. A Tesla exec told me,

when Elon spots a problem, he descends on it like a tornado.

It's intense. It's chaotic. But three days later, the issue is solved. Maybe one we've been

working on for months. End quote. Same with Steve Jobs. Apple designer Joni I've recalled,

Steve would blow in, tear everything down and leave.

People were crushed, but the next day's work better than anything we'd done before.

So, what do you do with these difficult geniuses? How do you harness their brilliance without letting them wreck morale?

Or if you are one, how do you keep from leaving a

trail of wreckage behind you? Let's break it down. Understanding the difficult genius. First,

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