Have you noticed how many senior so-called leaders use command and control tactics to mask an underlying insecurity?
Because it's easier to tell people what to do, berate them if they don't do it like you want, and then question their skills, commitment, loyalty, motivation, ability. . .
. . .then it is to show a little vulnerability and be a real person.
That inability and unwillingness of senior so-called leaders to let others see their humanity creates a culture where no one lets anyone else see their humanity either.
So we're left with a stodgy, bureaucratic, hierarchical, fearful, "professional" environment no one gives two shits about.
A workplace culture devoid of humanity.
But filled with small talk and niceties and interpersonal facades and superficial relationships that we conflate with humanity.
And devoid of true connection and trust and compassion and genuinely caring about people we work with.
But because so many senior so-called leaders don't and can't and won't see this, they don't and can't and won't understand why people do mediocre work.
They persist with the tired, uninspiring, superficial, ineffective command and control approach – never once considering that they are the problem.
Repeat. Ad infinitum.
All because they're too insecure to be human.