[tamimio]

Great article, people mix commanders with leaders, leaders main job is influencing while others do it their approach, their style, but still align with the goals you influenced.

> People tend to rise to your level of trust.

One of the companies that I almost worked for, had all the “we trust we empower our employees etc”, good promises, and later they were requiring full uninterrupted camera access while you do the work :)

[noitpmeder]

We're the employees taking advantage of that trust? Seems a strange thing to mandate unless that trust has been severely broken.

[alemanek]

Still the wrong response. Discipline the people abusing your trust.

Part of being a good manager is knowing when to step in and have a private conversation with people before things get too bad. If the bad behavior continues then you follow the process of formal write up’s and eventually termination.

Collective punishment is the sign of a manager who doesn’t know what they are doing and will kill a team.

[noitpmeder]

No argument there, id eject from any company that even started to consider such measures (unless they're adding a few zeroes to my paycheck)