<story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csee</author><text>Trustworthiness, sure. But not friendliness (unless it&amp;#x27;s asshole-level unfriendliness) over competence. There&amp;#x27;s little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because they&amp;#x27;re well liked) before being terminated.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll take neutral friendliness, or even slightly unfriendly, + extreme competence, any day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorbachev</author><text>&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate&lt;p&gt;Except that you can teach them things.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to teach an unfriendly person anything, and it&amp;#x27;s impossible to teach an arrogant asshole anything at all, because they think they&amp;#x27;re better than anyone else.</text></comment>
<story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csee</author><text>Trustworthiness, sure. But not friendliness (unless it&amp;#x27;s asshole-level unfriendliness) over competence. There&amp;#x27;s little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because they&amp;#x27;re well liked) before being terminated.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll take neutral friendliness, or even slightly unfriendly, + extreme competence, any day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doteka</author><text>I don’t think that’s an opinion held by someone who actually worked with&amp;#x2F;had to manage the combination of “slightly unfriendly + extreme confidence” before. That is how you get Prima Donnas, temper tantrums during technical discussions and other fun stuff.</text></comment>