Generalisations can be dangerous, and I regard the 'treat them like kids and they will behave like kids' as an example, and it is mismatched with the generalisation about treating employees like adults. Take it from someone who has a qualification in the hard sciences and a qualification in psychology, any stimulus merely increases the probability of a behaviour\cessation of a behaviour. Not even stimulating a single neurone causes an action potential, it merely increases the probability of one.
FWIW, the stuff on consultants and procedure following could have been aimed at the current British government, who've been inflicting precisely these things (box ticking culture, e.g.,) on the British people, in the name of political correctness. It's a pity, but I doubt if any of these buffoons will read your article. Maybe if you started writing for the Telegraph or the Times?