>>In a good-sized group, you can usually juggle people so a given mismatch doesn't cause problems.<<
Ooh, weve done that with teachers and lessons. Didn't prevent 100% of issues, but people mostly got to work with people they worked well with...and the one or two kerfluffles were much better than making people miserable or chasing 'em off because of a big incompatibility.
I had one person I just...didn't want to deal with, but no one forced us to interact (and there were enough people that I didn't have to handle the instigating incident myself beyond reporting it and going 'nope, not dealing with this.')
Another person didn't get along with some people, so we just had them work with people they got along with, and we'd work with the other folks. The work got done, and everyone ended up reasonably satisfied, so...
Re: Finn solution
Ooh, weve done that with teachers and lessons. Didn't prevent 100% of issues, but people mostly got to work with people they worked well with...and the one or two kerfluffles were much better than making people miserable or chasing 'em off because of a big incompatibility.
I had one person I just...didn't want to deal with, but no one forced us to interact (and there were enough people that I didn't have to handle the instigating incident myself beyond reporting it and going 'nope, not dealing with this.')
Another person didn't get along with some people, so we just had them work with people they got along with, and we'd work with the other folks. The work got done, and everyone ended up reasonably satisfied, so...