Mike Domitrz describes the "bulldozer" at work: someone who storms into meetings excited, dumping ideas without listening. It's not about control, he says, but being uncentered. If you recognize yourself doing this, pause and own it. Colleagues should call it out too.
And then there's the bulldozer, and the bulldozer can happen like this. They're so excited and passionate, they come in the room and it's just, blah, blah, blah. They're not dictator like everybody else. They're not telling everybody what to do, but they're just like vomiting in joy and excitement over their idea. I can do this, right? You probably could all watching this go, yeah, I can see you doing that. That's my energy. So I have to be very, very aware when I potentially am doing that and having those conversations. All right, so if that's the case, then how do you avoid the person to bulldoze? If you're a bulldozer like me, you get really excited. I just want you to go back to your workplace and say to people, hey, if I ever— and you can fill in the blank, whatever way you bulldoze, right? If I ever come in, I'm just spitting ideas and really not listening, know that's not about— know that that is— sorry, know that is about me not being centered in the moment, and it's not about you.
