Each was given one last request. The problem is, they did shoot him first, and he never heard the lecture. They think that it is in the nature of things that the people at the top do all the important thinking and the rest wield the screwdrivers.
Executives start thinking that they have to control budgets, schedules, things, and people.
And so the prevailing style of leadership is benevolent authoritarianism, where the people at the top think they know best and do all the thinking and prescribe methods for getting desired bottom-line results. Because those in power often want people to be the way they want them to be. The robbery of agency is a serious violation of the intrinsic dignity and worth of another person. Then there is no law of the harvest. When I went to the Harvard Business School in the late 1950s, the school was in a state of transition from the human relations movement to a new human resource model of management.