Intimidating people into working simply fails if you're hiring the kind of people your company ought to be hiring. The intimidation is a distraction - you get p

Intimidating people into working simply fails if you're hiring the kind of people your company ought to be hiring. The intimidation is a distraction - you get people to focus on the problem of social pressure at work rather than the technical problems they want to work on. I think a related issue is that putting pressure on subordinates is a thing that managers can point to in order to justify their position. It's a lot harder to mostly stay out of the way.