Jun

19

Popovich likes to yell at his players, possibly manhandling them the way he possibly did at the Air Force Academy. He reminds one of McNamara and the whiz kid when they toured the Ford factory in 1944 to install modern management methods there. In order to show the whiz kids how tough they were, Bennet, Ford's assistant in charge of security, manhandled all the operatives on the factory floor pushing them around and berating them for this and that infraction. Of course the whiz kids were astonished as they used cuddly management in the armed forces to embrace their soldiers to provide good morale. One wonders whether Popovich's yelling at his players caused them to slack off in the last 28 seconds and that's why they lost the game. Also, whether rough management in companies, firing willy nilly, and providing no benefits, a la Welch (assuming you couldn't talk sexy to him on Saturday mornings before golf), leads to inferior performance.

Richard Owen writes:

Branson's maxim is a company should be for employees first, then customers, then shareholders. That will create the best spirit, thus the best product, thus the best return. There seems to be a bifurcation of high performers: at one extreme are the psychopathic cultures that rule by fear, at the other, those that resemble religious/positive thinking inculcation.


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