alt Hacker NewsPlenty of people thrive in environments where high performance is demanded. This idea that you produce the best outputs by coddling your employees is pure cope.
Demanding high performance also doesn't necessarily mean forcing everyone to work 996 or yelling at people, but it can mean enforcing standards that everyone might not like or agree with.
The fact that you are framing it as a binary between “demand performance” and “coddling” tells me you don’t really have strong people skills