Managing strong personalities

This article tackles the challenge of managing engineers with strong personalities and big egos, offering practical strategies for channeling their talent effectively. The piece emphasizes demonstrating technical competence to gain respect, reframing feedback as constructive guidance rather than criticism, and focusing on team integration over individual brilliance. Engineering managers will learn how to work with high-confidence individuals by acknowledging their skills while helping them understand that true talent is measured by team contribution, using the Mourinho principle: teaching them how to play within the team.