It is amazing that some in management and leadership positions resort to creating an environment of fear to get their people to work. Research consistently proves that fear-based leadership or management does not work. It may in the short-term, but the quality of work will be average at best and it is never sustainable in the long run.
Source: Leadership First, October 12, 2019. Link. So, if you are very good at sales, or accounting, or any number of specialties–and stay around a long time, the next step in your progression is to be promoted to manager. But the talents that make a person successful in a previous, non-management role are rarely the same ones that will make them excel as a manager or as a leader.
INSIGHTS: Leadership is many things, but at its core it is gaining WHOLEHEARTED followers for a given course of action.