To manage or lead by employing both kindness (rewards) and severity (punishments); to use both inducements and deterrents in a balanced way.
这位项目经理在管理团队时，总是恩威并用，既能理解大家的困难，也会对工作失误严格问责，因此团队凝聚力很强。
When managing the team, this project manager always employed a balanced approach of both kindness and firmness, understanding everyone's difficulties while also holding them accountable for work mistakes, thus fostering strong team cohesion.
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