In my experience, some of best, brightest, most trustworthy, and most productive people I've ever worked with have been "insubordinate pains in the butt" at times. But even so, at the end of the day or at the end of a project, I was almost always happy that I was working with them, simple because......... results matter, and they could deliver the goods, plus their ethics were almost uniformly superb.
The folks that can't get along with this type are usually hyper-sensitive, ego-driven individuals who are burden by various insecurities, who don't truly recognize and who don't properly value real talent. Pride is allowed to get in the way of finding workable solutions to problems both great and small.
In my opinion, trading -- in effect -- a Seyfried for a Venturino, while retaining a Rees is just-plain stupid.
That's the best they can do? Come on!
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