While I agree with everything you wrote about "no excuses" being a side effect of a healthy frame of mind, and that in an ideal situation things should be motiv

While I agree with everything you wrote about "no excuses" being a side effect of a healthy frame of mind, and that in an ideal situation things should be motivated by passion and not by fear, I wonder if perhaps sometimes the amount of damage created from long exposure to a bad environment is not something that can be easily undone and one has to revert to the stick to achieve results. I wouldn't want to manage or be managed in such an organisation, , but I can imagine there are situations where discipline needs to be enforced when the culture is too far gone due to past mistakes. Using the analogy to human personality, you probably won't fix deep rooted pathologies or self destructive habits overnight by motivation talks. Maybe sometimes things have to be artificially straightened out because the time for a natural fix would just take too long.