OH MY!!!! I just couldn't resist, I had to go find this article you read and get a gander at it myself. I just could not believe there are educated experienced folks out there that truly believe this.  I have seen the uneducated and bad managers who believe this, but people like this usually do not stay in positions that long.

I look at these points and just see a guide to anarchy and employee turnover.  Unfortunately I have seen this first hand in positions I have held in the past and it is not only a moral killer but promotes so much distrust and the sense of mediocre performance that leaders, owners and their organizations fail and it is employees who are blamed... almost always by the poor leaders.

A message to the tyrants... Wanna be a tyrant?  Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you would work for the person you are looking at, knowing you are under appreciated, distrusted, and forced to work under less than ideal conditions.