You and James, who is a member of your team, are working on a project together. James is pleasant but very difficult to work with on the project. When you share an idea with James, he says that the...

You and James, who is a member of your team, are working on a project together. James is pleasant but very difficult to work with on the project. When you share an idea with James, he says that the project cannot be done that way. Last week you met to prepare a summary for your current project, which will be distributed at the next team meeting. You expected the meeting to last fifteen minutes, but James insisted on including all possible details and scenarios saying that the details could be deleted prior to distributing the project at the next team meeting. You wonder why the details have to be included if they are going to be deleted. The meeting lasted over two hours. You feel that James likes to expand every project and create more work than is necessary. You will be working with James on future projects and would like to solve this problem.

a. How does the situation make you feel?

b. What options to you have to solve the problem?