Yep, I can confirm that. My strategy is to tell people "I am going to make it work and you are going to either help me, or watch helplessly as I make it work w

Yep, I can confirm that. My strategy is to tell people "I am going to make it work and you are going to either help me, or watch helplessly as I make it work without you and make you look like an idiot". It helps to take assertions like "you cannot do that" literally, even though they tend to be said to mean "you may not do that" or "you should not do that", and prove that you can in fact, do that all you like because there are no laws of physics preventing it. It has caused a few surreal meetings, like the time when a guy did a 40 minute long presentation on "I need more people and more money in my workgroup to make this work" while the first batch of completed, working, tested production units (built by me and one other guy after we got sick of the BS, I even paid for the manufacturing out of pocket) was in the middle of the conference table. Imagine a half dozen people trying to ignore what was literally in front of their eyes. Another time it also has caused me to escort a security guard out of the building because he was being disruptive. He had been told to escort me out of the building, grabbed me without asking my permission, and found himself in a headlock, then was informed that if he did want to fight me, he was welcome to. Then I got back inside and finished my business. Sometimes you just have to say "full speed ahead and damn the torpedos", or nothing gets done. (My father's rule of fights: Never hit first, always hit last)