People are less creative when they feel disrespected. If you&#x27;re running a military or places like UPS, where your work value can be boiled down to time and motion studies, it makes a ton of sense to break down people&#x27;s sense of self: they are being asked to become machines, after all.<p>Torvald&#x27;s recent screed on <i>Management via perkele</i>, where rudeness is encouraged, interestingly, was born from his time serving in the Finnish military. Could Linux be even better if he dropped this mentality? Maybe. He insists that by being rude you stop tacit political behavior which would undermine technical excellence. But this seems contradictory. <i>Management by perkele</i> is by definition a form of tacit politics.<p>Torvalds position:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JZ017D_JOPY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JZ017D_JOPY</a><p>Other points of interest:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-high-cost-of-rudeness-at-w&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-high-cost-of-rudeness-at-w&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-price-of-incivility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-price-of-incivility</a>