Not too Disney all the time
Situational management is just a means to help you as a manager focus correctly to achieve the right outcome for your organisation.
It helps you look not just at a person, but at tasks or projects.
If a person or project is off the rails, it is up the manager to work out what is wrong and an appropriate action.
I've had to use it in the past to bring projects back on track. This usually occurs when a manager allows too much creativity to abound without boundaries or clear indication of outcomes. Thankfully, my current team is mostly self-managed. They still expect me to do my job, which sometimes means I have to lay down the law. More nicely put... set a clear direction.
