Here’s Why High Performers Are Not Always Good for the Team

https://betterprogramming.pub/heres-why-high-performers-are-not-always-good-for-the-team-f0e342b90fbc

Interesting ideas, and be sure to also check out the comments.

What you describe is the lone wolf without empathy that everybody is different in skills. You correctly assume that this is the kind of person that disrupts a team.This person either learns to work with the team (take a step back & work at a pace that helps others to grow) or needs to go solo freelancing.
Having spent more years than you've been alive building high performing development teams, I am astounded by your perspective.In your world the fastest runners would be required to wear lead weights around their ankles to make them slow. 
This is not a problem of the high performers - it's a management issue. The manager needs to set tasks appropriate to each team member (with the appropriate level of stretch/challenge).You are also generalising high-performers in terms of their impact to others - what you say can happen, but it's certainly not the case everywhere.In my experience, low performers are more of an impact on the team than high performers - but again that's a management issue to resolve.

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