I'm always a little concerned by articles like this because they seem to set up the following path of events: 1) Chronic unyielder starts driving down productivity. 2) Chronic unyielder begins to notice a pattern of being interrupted by increasingly frustrated team members. 3) Chronic unyielder stumbles into validating articles like this one. 4) Chronic unyielder decides that they are surrounded by "chronic interrupters." 5) Chronic unyielder decides that team members are "being mean." 6) Chronic unyielder adopts Minden's advice of: "If people refuse to accept these reasonable requests, you can respectfully state that the conversation isn’t productive and that it would be best to talk another time." 7) Communications break down. The unyielder doesn't understand why, the balance of the team gets tired of carrying the weight. 8) ???