Karin Hurt & David Dye, Authors, Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul
The board cares about winning and this guy is helping you win. He gets it done. It's hard to argue with the results. So what if he's ruffling a few feathers... with his team, with his peers, with HR, with IT? Does it really matter if his team “likes” him? This is business.
The better he does, the better you look. And so you choose to look the other way, shrug your shoulders and chalk it up to the cost of genius.