Firewords: A Dangerous necessity in your life?

There are many stories of people injuring themselves, and others, with Firewords in the old wild days of entrepreneurship and it is usually passed off as the price that had to be paid in order to win. However, as time passes, there is a tendency to confuse reality with myth about how people rose to be so successful. The myth tends to appear as reality and that can be dangerous especially as we are all becoming more aware of our rights and the speed of the internet and bloggers to highlight indiscretions. Could it be that the days of the hard talking, difficult to please, arrogant, self possessed workaholic is the stuff of daydreams, films and bar room fantasies? Could it be that those who follow the Firewords behaviour of: ridiculing others, being angry in traffic jams, being impatient because things are not moving the way they would like them to move, or their desires are not being met, bawling out the secretary when things are not as they would like, constantly accusing people of being of a lower mental disposition i.e. they are thick