I'm not interested in supervising X-people who need to be motivated and encouraged to do good work. I want to work with Y-people, who are self-disciplined, demonstrate self-control and contextual judgement, and who motivate themselves to do good work. I'm lucky enough to be working in a team full of Y-people.
Thinking about some X-people I've worked with previously, I wonder if they were always X or whether they started out as Y but were turned into X by prolonged subjection to command and control management? Is this a chicken and egg scenario? I'm speculating but I would guess a transformation from X to Y is most prevalent in institutionalised organisations that do everything by command and control. That said, what worries me is the prevalence of command and control in the industry and that it seems to be the norm.
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