This trope is unadulterated bullshit. Thanks for beating me to the punch. If they want to run a company on the basis of snappy, feel-good slogans ("We're all

This trope is unadulterated bullshit. Thanks for beating me to the punch. If they want to run a company on the basis of snappy, feel-good slogans ("We're all 10x-ers here!"), that's one thing. But the thing that gets me about the 10x-er line is that it isn't even in agreement with the original research (whatever you may choose to make of that research -- there was at least some research done on this, and its basic findings don't seem out of line with subjective, day-to-day observation). Unfortunately, those findings never said that top performers were "10x better than average." Rather, that they were 10x better than the worst performers, on the very bottom of the scale. So if there's anything all to the quantitative side of their findings -- it's that the "best" formers are merely... 3.16x better than average. Which, sadly, doesn't make for a catch slogan that you can use to emotionally manipulate people with. And if you ever brought up this inconvenient fact at an Expensify meeting -- next time you heard that it's time to go on the warpath, and root out all the lowly 8x-ers and 7x-ers -- I'm sure you'd be pegged as a disruptive, miserable, self-hating narcissist bent on bringing others down to your own level. And of course, immediately be put on PIP.