Many feel the opposite. How can you ensure people are working, unless they truly fear you? Make a mistake and you are in deep, deep trouble, buddy. Straight to the pit!
History has shown that it's a graceful balancing of carrot and stick that works the best with intelligent biological organisms. The field of psychology generally corroborates this, I think.
What were Einstein’s or Newton’s stick?
the shame of letting a good mind go to waste
The rage of failing to talk to someone about the beautiful thoughts you have because the math to describe it doesn't exist yet so you invent calculus