It’s about a dated, cowardly and ultimately ineffective way of dealing with people; dated because leaders are thinking differently about their approach to leadership today; cowardly because it avoids the real problem, which might in fact be our own inabilities, our lack of vision and planning or our inappropriate way of dealing with people; ultimately ineffective because coercive tactics never bring about lasting, deep-rooted change, which means we must continue to resort to the same throw-our-weight-around approach every time the pressure is on.
