Team Geek Chapter 4: Poisonous People

This chapter discussed so-called "poisionous people" on a team, and how to deal with them. Instead of identifying them as bad people and filter them out, we must filter out their negative behavior, because it is a negative threat to a high-functioning team. In order to help prevent poisonous people, you must fortify your culture within the team, so that bad behaviors cannot penetrate the air of attention and focus, which could be put at risk by it. Some examples given to identify poisonous people are ego, overentitlement, immature or confusing communication, and perfectionism. The solution to these examples of poisonous people are to redirect the energy of perfectionists (because they do have good intentions), don't feed the energy creature, don't get overly emotional, repel with kindness, and know when to give up. I feel these are very helpful in repelling the negative behaviors of poisonous people, and ensure a high-functioning, hardworking team.