Should A Leader Sometimes Unite People In Hatred?

I recently watched an episode of the popular American medical comedy series 'Scrubs.' This episode had a character fresh out of the Iraq war who commented on the leadership skills of his sergeant. All through his scenes he talked about the good points of his sergeant so the audience believed he loved working under him. In the end however, he confessed that he and all the people under him hated him and his leadership style. The man overworked them and belittled them, but the private concerned believed that sometimes that is what a leader does. Part of leadership is about uniting people to work for a common cause and in this case they were united in their hatred for the awful sergeant which meant they bonded together against that common enemy.

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