In reply to Jon Stewart:
Sounds like they may have read Daniel Pink's book "Drive", which proposes mastery, autonomy and purpose as the foundations of workplace motivation. I don't think that book proposes stopping making people do stuff they don't want to do though, which seems to be where the podcast was heading in suggesting that awaydays are bad. I don't know, I had to switch it off because his rambling delivery was bugging me too much and making me unhappy.