If you’ve worked in a company for any length of time, you’ve probably seen one of these prophets. People refer to them as glass breakers, cowboys, toe stompers, or just plain assholes. Yet it’s difficult to get rid of them, because they produce massive amounts of high-quality work.
Going through my too full RSS-reader (yes, I am old-fashioned) after a week – and for some reason this post from Ben Horowitz in November ‘14 appeared. And I can relate to it personally to a large degree as well…