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First, a little look in your soul-mirror: If you won't read past this warning, then *you* are the difficult person.

WARNING: I do not work in an office. I cannot work with "large groups"; you might dismiss _me_ as 'a difficult person,' but I do have an alibi for my difficulties. (My alibi? I can't work with large groups of people all-at-once because it would require dismissing their individuality ... individuality makes large groups less-"profitable for the company," but large groups with removed-individuality are *stupid*-intelligent work requires more-precise detail than can be accomplished by the flood-rush of a large group.)

If you need a particular person's help, consider him a "pirate." That's not to say 'consider him as one who is at odds with the government'; no, just remember that he will make the choice which is most-opportune-*for-him*." Make it look more-"profitable to him" than whatever he normally has to do while 'puttin` in his "forty",' then tell him what extra labor he must suffer for the extra profit.

The reasoning behind that? Most of us difficult people are "in it for ourselves"-we don't care "what is most-profitable for the company," because-even though some of the 'profitable for company'-things are also profitable for all the company's employees (and thus for ourselves) in the long-run-the company's highest executives get to those profits first and don't recognize the work of the Team Members below; so we difficult people won't give much extra-effort for the prosperity of any others associated with the company.

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