I have to throw this in here because people are actually studying the ability of certain personality traits and whether they lead to success or not. This study has been making the rounds of late:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...20advancement.
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Two studies provide empirical evidence to settle the question of whether being aggressively Machiavellian helps people get ahead. The studies concluded that being a jerk provides no advantage in career advancement. Any power boost disagreeable people get from being intimidating is offset by their poor interpersonal relationships, the studies concluded.
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"Disagreeableness is a relatively stable aspect of personality that involves the tendency to behave in quarrelsome, cold, callous, and selfish ways," the researchers explained. ." ..Disagreeable people tend to be hostile and abusive to others, deceive and manipulate others for their own gain, and ignore others' concerns or welfare."
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"The bad news here is that organizations do place disagreeable individuals in charge just as often as agreeable people," Anderson said. "In other words, they allow jerks to gain power at the same rate as anyone else, even though jerks in power can do serious damage to the organization."
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Read it on your own, but it appears that the hardass/negative management style is antiquated, yet we still have a tendency to favor it because of assumptions that it "gets the job done" with no evidence to support that thought. In fact, it seems to be a net negative since it damages reputation and interpersonal relationships.
I think people need to reimagine what it is to be a good coach/manager. It's not the 1960s anymore.