How does one incorporate genius?

I've been thinking about this problem. No matter how one slices it, at its base, it's a philosophical problem.

Assume you have a genius employee or player. A person that is clearly above anyone else of their generation and can't explain how they see the world to you because you don't have the capacity to understand how they perceive and process their environment.

How do you fit them into your system so that you get the best out of what they have?

If you read the above question and the word "fit" seemed awkward, then I think you and I are on similar pages.

So let's hear from you guys...how does one incorporate genius and maximise output.

Above everyone's pay grades, Plummie. Start with something simple and work up, for god's sake.

I really need to check my typos before I post haha

You must find it's passion and align you goals to benefit from it...keep things interesting, but that will require some genius from the employer himself ..very difficult to manage genius.

Assuming a genius musician. You already know what their passion is....music.

If you're in a band together, your goals are already align...you wanna create excellent music and be successful.

As I see it, you have two broad options.

1) The genius becomes the tip of the spear. Everything you build is around and for them. If it works, then great. The risk being that if everybody else can't keep up, it all falls apart. This would probably be the most difficult route but with the highest payoff and the big downside of it don't work.

2) Everybody else just carries on as normal and the genius is given the freedom to break and structure and capitalise when they see the opportunities that nobody else can. The risk here is that the genius is then, in some sense, on a solo team of his own. Part of the team but also not. This would probably be the safer option but likely have a smaller payoff than option 1

... we're obviously talking about Sacha...but in rugby, noone can be greater than the team...so 2 won't work...and you can't build the team just around him, what happens when his not available?

Gell him into the team so everyone knows his play like they know their own...tweak the style a bit to suit him better, but stick to the trial and tested team structures...

I think (2) accommodates for when he's not available.

I keep trying to think about how Messi was handled.

Have done a bit of reading on him too. For the most part they pretty much let him do as he pleased. Apparently he didn't train as much as the other guys either. So he was an option 2 guy and they got maximum reward out of him.

But then Ronaldo was the opposite, he trained harder than everybody else and was all about elevating those around him. He was an option 1 guy.

Sacha is somewhere between those two. He works his arse off, is apparently all about the team, but then also has this clear level of abstract genius that reminds one of Messi.

I need answers. Don't give up Draad...

Xavi, of course, needs to jump in here being the most qualified on this platform to offer an opinion in rugby terms.