I worked for a company with truly awful leadership once. Only one person was brave enough to be overt how they would not tolerate it, but the general IT staff w

I worked for a company with truly awful leadership once. Only one person was brave enough to be overt how they would not tolerate it, but the general IT staff were more broadly unhappy, directly because of that leadership. He was a Neuro-Linguistic Programming nutcase, and had an outstanding sexual harrassment case from his prior role. I think about that a lot, in this current situation. TL;DR people do get motivated or de-motivated by leadership.