If we are blessed with this ability it should be our joy to enact it. Connecting our work to the eyes of others is a bonus and requires its own kind of ingenuity. You have described my studio. And my style of leadership. If you don't have the support of your staff, it will not work at all.
Factions develop and people get resentful and critical.
My staff frequently lets me down. He's sometimes lazy. More than anything he's not as competent as he says he is. Your pastoral view of managing the shop floor by wandering about and inquiring after the worker's home life while making minor incursions into the general productivity of the shop is crap. There is no science in managing people as there is no science in managing one's life.