Ask HN: How to deal with overly-confident-sounding team members

While confidence can be a good thing, it’s not always. In our team meetings, a few people tend to dominate the conversation, periodically talking at length about things they don’t understand, and this will engage our manager, who also doesn’t understand, and this can go on for minutes. I try to interrupt at times to correct them, wait until they’re done to correct them, or just give up and let them say inaccurate things and make bad decisions. I want to be more assertive, but when I do, they can be defensive and sometimes hold a grudge, at worst making it their life goal to take me down.

Have you found any successful ways of handling these sorts of communication problems, and are there any books or talks you’d suggest?