You are a cow, but not sacred
So, this has to be the funniest headline (for me at least) I’ve ever come up with. It has been inspired by me watching several key people in several businesses (big and small) shoot their feet off (as recent as last week); and all for no reason. So, to break down the title. Some religions believe the cow is a sacred animal. Many other religions like to eat the cow! So the conflict emerged as the saying, “there is no sacred cow”; in other words; you may be slaughtered! So it is an idiom, that Wikipedia puts best as “Sacred cow (idiom), something considered (perhaps unreasonably) immune from question or criticism”.
If you run a good business, you are disposable. If you structure your business where you are not disposable; you are an insecure egomaniac. Or, you are a narcissistic sociopath. Either way, you need help and your business will most likely not work. The idea of trying to always be right, and ignoring the voice of your employees and/or customers is a bad one. If you do not own the business, and instead are an employee/associate; be really careful about this. The idea of thinking, “my boss needs me” or “this company will fail without me” is probably going to leave you unemployed and broke.