As a self-identified cowboy, I must point out that the article doesn’t cover the downsides of cowboys. For example: - a cowboy trying to disrupt an established system (for the best of motives) may cause a big bubble of additional work, stress, discontent, etc., in the process

- given a likely predisposition to action, a Cowboy may also sometimes lack the experience/oversight to spot reasons why the system is as it is, and miss downsides or unintended consequences of their disruption

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Also, there are also many, many times that you would want a system and ‘drones’ to be in charge - like anything involving detail with life-changing downsides. Y’know, things like radiotherapy administration, airliner QA, pharmaceutical production, etc.

As such, changing the nomenclature to be less negative about the group of people who do important but routine work would help discussion and dissemination of this concept. Maybe “disruptor” and “deliverer” might work better?

(We should also note that this is a subset/simplification of Belbin’s team roles…)