Have you experienced the feeling that your team put you down?

He's probably a Portfolio Manager somewhere now ;-)

I tried a lot to train him and motivate him but he is not interested.

I have had team members like this before and have posted about these experiences here.

My only stance is -- I can fight the stakeholders, I can fight the environment, I can fight the internal administrative reporting procedures. I can do all this on behalf of the team.

But I cannot do this and fight with the project team at the same time. I just am not that good.

I have tried open, direct communication and it has been successful more often than not. The key is to make achieving the project objective the goal - and not any interpersonal differences. There have been other regrettable occasions where team members in question have left the project. And there has been one occasion where I have stepped down (because an internal stakeholder was - as Sante put it in an earlier thread - a guardian angel of such a team member).