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Everybody makes a good point about fear.  Yet, you have not gone far
enough in the survey.  You need to find the cause of the fear.  Each
person manages differently.  The supervisor who has the most likable
personality make cause the most fear because he is incompetent, tends to
deflect criticism to his subordinates and grabs the glory as much as
possible.

The assertion that hard chargers are fearmongers is groundless.  As an
Army officer I find the personality in the previous paragraph more
susceptible to cause fear than a hard charger who is a good communicator.

Another implication of Gary Bender's that I don't like is imposing
discipline causes fear.  In fact a good disciplinarian creates less fear
by stating clearly what the ground rules are.  If a subordinate breaks
the rules and is appropriately disciplined, it shows the subordinates
that the supervisor is a man of his word and is not out to screw the
subordinate.

I agree with Gary that good leadership eliminates fear.  What I disagree
is some of the characterizations of good leadership.  I would suggest
some good books on military style leadership as useful reading rather
than some of the trash currently on book shelves.

Scott Rutherford