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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
This is all quite true, but it has been true for a long time. 20 years ago, the terrible bosses were saying "do what I say because I am the boss". The good ones inspired through other means.
Perhaps the newer generations will understand this better, but I suspect you will still have those "dinosaur" managers, even if Millenial or Gen Z.
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Yes, it absolutely is a grey area, with younger people tending to be better at it than older people, but nothing absolute.
Some of it is just how our brains work as we age. Humans tend to get more stuck in our ways as we get older. And we are rarely self aware enough to realize when we become the problem.
But there is a larger trend too. I would agrue that this has been going on (in the west) since the middle ages. Nobility and feudalism was peak "do as I say or else" management style. Since then we have been slowly breaking those power structures, moving towards a more egalitarian culture. But not a straight line either, as the many dictatorships around the world and even the current nonsense in Florida show, some people are attracted to strong man "do as I say or else" leadership.
The genrational name calling is silly and pointless. But nothing too out of the ordinary. People find trite slogans easier to express than getting into the actual complexity of what is happening.