sounds like a non-technical manager who is unable to identify the smart coders, who uses policies that have consistently chased the smartest coders away from his department, and who has chosen to blame this on the coders rather than his poor policies.
For every nugget of truth in this article there is a viscous slathering of insecurity projected onto what were no doubt highly abused technical teams systematically subjected to abusive middle management by a blathering idiot.
My secret desire is that deep down Tim Bryce really does realize what an utterly irredeemable fool he is.