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...I've met enough baseball execs already (in limited time on the inside) to confirm that baseball men are very...very nice people for the most part.
I am far less intimidated giving a presentation of my ideas to my employer than I thought I'd be as a 20-year old independent analyst (back in the early 2000s), and everyone I know who has come back from other interviews and such tells stories of how nice these folks are.
Zduriencik seems like a type-A person. The fact that he wants to do things his way and is not particularly nice about that shouldn't be read as bullying even if it is a bit unusual in the modern game of baseball...but I don't think baseball clubs are like F500 companies when they're most effective. I think a ballclub with a good front office should be a bit like a think tank. You still need one leader running the operations department and he still needs to be the boss with final say...but think tank analysis works better than the way they're describing Z here.