You don't. Power Law distributions will create situations where-in the Ricks are doing 90% for the real work when they're not deliberately surrounded by other/better Ricks. This is what made Xerox PARC the most productive computer company of all time; great thinkers playing together with little interference.
You can't maintain a SaaS application this way though. The issue isn't management or Ricks; it's the lousy business infrastructure that's privatized science and technology in the United States and kept the Ricks from doing their natural work so that 90 untalented people can have jobs in the software industry.
The oxymorony is that the growth that we create from letting the normie douchebags have their salaries and cargo shorts actually is a net win for society from a macroscopic perspective. It's a societal con but it's a con that keeps families fed; and there can't be, "Ricks" without, "stable societies." Also worth considering!
Poor management suffers from the problem on not fixing things if they do not seem broke. They will get Rick to overwork himself into burnout if it helps them.
When Rick feels betrayed and is belligerent because they are taking basically everything he is away from him (at this point this is his work).
So what could they have done? easy! They could have stopped rick from getting this far by actually managing him, having people actually look at his work and make sure he was actually collaborating with others. Rick would likely be a better and less stressed worker.
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I've encountered some Rick. For me they are pushing themselves into it, they like to be the center of things.
Now, what would the management do? How do you make him work with the team?
You don't. Power Law distributions will create situations where-in the Ricks are doing 90% for the real work when they're not deliberately surrounded by other/better Ricks. This is what made Xerox PARC the most productive computer company of all time; great thinkers playing together with little interference.
You can't maintain a SaaS application this way though. The issue isn't management or Ricks; it's the lousy business infrastructure that's privatized science and technology in the United States and kept the Ricks from doing their natural work so that 90 untalented people can have jobs in the software industry.
The oxymorony is that the growth that we create from letting the normie douchebags have their salaries and cargo shorts actually is a net win for society from a macroscopic perspective. It's a societal con but it's a con that keeps families fed; and there can't be, "Ricks" without, "stable societies." Also worth considering!
Poor management suffers from the problem on not fixing things if they do not seem broke. They will get Rick to overwork himself into burnout if it helps them.
When Rick feels betrayed and is belligerent because they are taking basically everything he is away from him (at this point this is his work).
So what could they have done? easy! They could have stopped rick from getting this far by actually managing him, having people actually look at his work and make sure he was actually collaborating with others. Rick would likely be a better and less stressed worker.