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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2356493, member: 1131"] Have you ever witnessed (or perhaps been part of) a workplace situation where a very talented and productive employee simply did not work well with a particular boss, and eventually that situation ended with the employee and the boss being separated (through dismissal, transfer, reorganization, the employee resigning because he/she is passed over for promotion, etc.)? I have witnessed many of those situations and have been part of a few of them, and in my experience, the boss usually wins (and should win) in those situations. The boss has accountability for the team as a whole, and "fairness" to individual employees has to take a back seat to the smooth functioning of the whole team. It may be that the employee would work better with another boss, or it may be that the employee (despite his/her talent) simply has trouble working as a team member in any situation. Either way, if someone has to "bend" to accommodate the other personality, it is and should be the employee rather than the boss who does that. In this case, Geno as coach and Candace as player were together for the 2012 London Olympics, and by all indications it did not end well, and left Geno with the belief that he did not want a repetition of that situation in 2016. Although he did not choose the team himself, he certainly had a strong voice (probably the strongest voice) in making recommendations to those who did, and I believe he recommended against Candace's selection simply to avoid a repetition of the London situation. By a split vote, they decided (apparently) to accede to their head coach's wishes. I don't see that anyone did anything wrong -- certainly nothing that doesn't happen at least occasionally in every workplace in America. I suspect that Candace has respect for Geno's talents as a basketball coach, even though she never figured out (and it was "on her", not on him, to figure it out) how to work with him productively. She seems to work very well with Brian Agler, the LA Sparks' coach, and I doubt that his basketball wisdom is very different than Geno's. I notice that Candace is successfully scoring on a lot of backdoor plays against Minnesota -- something that was always a trademark of Geno's offense. I will bet that she is happy finally to have a coach (like she never had in Knoxville) who knows how to make that work, and whom she can comfortably work for. Probably Geno also wishes that he could have found a way to use Candace productively, but apparently it never happened in London and he didn't think it would happen in 2016, so he chose to try to avoid the problem. I can't blame him, and I can't blame her. [/QUOTE]

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