[pluckytree]

I’ve seen a lot more success with the "hire smart people and get out of the way" methodology of managment. If you allow people the freedom to work together and make their own decisions in a mature manner, you don’t need these childish techniques for making decisions. In practice, this probably makes people feel like they are in some bizarro world than that they are an adult entrusted with real responsibility.

A manager’s role can be reduced to keeping people on track and helping settle contentious decisions, whether by mediating or making the decision themselves.

If I was interviewing for a company and I found out they used techniques like this, I would get up in the middle of the interview and walk out.