# A Dog with a Bone By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2024-12-14 Strongly opinionated individuals often make it far in business because their opinions come from a conviction that drives their daily behaviors and motivations. They are the stereotypical dog with a bone that is intensely focused on chewing that fucking bone come hell or high water. As action is so rare and highly rewarded in capitalistic business memes, these individuals are allowed and encouraged to chew their bones because at least they are doing something. However, bone chewers rarely make good leaders or thinkers. They consider nothing else other than their opinion that they know is correct. Any different opinion or consideration is often dismissed via outright rejection or fancy debate tactics. Others believe someone has such conviction that they must have thought it through. So, they sit back and take it. Bone chewers adjust their approach only when the bigger dog takes their bone or tells them their team hates them and to get with the program. Stealing the bone is often met with great anger, and fights break out, damaging the organization while everyone else watches on. This is organizational politics at its worst. Telling bone chewers to care about people beyond the bone results in placated actions intended to show compliance, but they quickly return to chewing that fucking bone. An analytical thinker watching this unfold repeatedly sees the pattern and can easily predict what will happen. As with nearly everything, misery follows those closely associated with unbalanced individuals. I recommend letting the bone chewers chew that fucking bone and move on with a more examined life. #### Related Items [[Psychology]] [[Leadership]] [[Organization]] [[Work]] [[Thinking]] [[Advice]] [[Balanced]]