puck hog
Britishnoun
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Otherwise known as employees —individuals being led by a leader — it just may be those people making up roughly 90 percent of an organization’s population that cause this selfish sort of leadership puck hog behaviour.
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A puck hog is a player on a hockey team who holds onto the puck for far too long looking to score from anywhere on the ice or is so disillusioned with their abilities he or she believes they can win the game without ever passing the puck to teammates.
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I’m from Canada and although I’ve never played hockey, there is a colloquial expression in my country known as a “puck hog”.
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