As for what it does in this case... we'll see. Will he get a bunch of superhero 10x programmers sleeping under their desks? Or will all the superheroes leave, reducing him to the ones who are afraid of finding a new job and being bad at it until he fires them?

Thus far he seems all stick and no carrot, but perhaps he's got something up his sleeve.

On the other hand, Eddie Lampert used a weird libertarian method and ran Sears into the ground.

I think there's a lot of survivor bias in how business leaders are treated.