This is just management advice. This has as much spice as day old oatmeal. It's also not new, it's management training 101.

There's nothing fucked up about this. If anything it's recycled shit from a mall store manager's book of training.

Management training exists so that people don't defer to their own egos and impulses when managing staff. It's a systemic/standardized approach to common behaviors found in employees. If anything it helps mitigate the more toxic behaviors of competitive environments. It's not perfect, but it is funny that tech bros have rediscovered Human Resources departments