"Employees should be coding or selling. Otherwise, fire them!" So goes a new managerial dictum blustered by managers keen to pass the vitriol as some sort of clever distributive work policy to be followed by their employees. I first heard the sell it, build it or get fired quip as part of a "motivational" speech delivered by a browbeating CEO to our division, all of us looking for leadership to overcome a quarter of disappointing earnings. But while his aim was to motivate, the cheeky threat had many of us looking for new jobs the next week despite the fact he was full of hot hair. He was eventually fired when his perennial bullying and your-with-me-or-against-me style management was realized to be contrary to fundamental egalitarian leadership policies on which the company prided itself. But...