NewMexiKen first published this four years ago today and again in 2007.
From an article in The Albuquerque Tribune:
Those who didn’t care much for Pete Nanos still seethed over the comment he made about some lab employees being “cowboys and butt-heads” during an all-hands meeting of Los Alamos National Laboratory employees last year.
Not a good choice of words for a staff meeting, but I’ve got to admit that every place NewMexiKen ever worked had its share of “cowboys and buttheads.”
Despite all adverts asking for “team players” cowboys and buttheads are not only rewarded by most firms – in their most positive sense they frequently provide needed shakeup to firms.
In their least positive sense – they are disruptive and in my field frequently dangerous – real razor’s edge there.