The managerial fear button and punished vulnerability

Managers have a lot on their plates, and often "motivating or building your team" falls to their last priority. Enter fear as a "strategy."

Here's a new article on "cultivating intellectual bravery." I want you to ignore the topic of the article, because "intellectual bravery" is bullshit. If you tried to talk about that concept with a manager or executive in most companies, they would shuttlecock themselves through the nearest plate-glass window out of fear. Most managers do not want peopl…