Keep those people working. That's got to be part of the goal of corporate performance management. The question is, are you a carrot person or a stick person. In one of my jobs I suffered because I am a carrot person, so I like to reason with people and make them see the value in a particular course of action. My boss was a stick person, who liked to browbeat people into doing what he wanted. In the end, our management styles were incompatible. What's your management style?