Ah, the "never fire anyone" approach. You can train all low performers into being excellent employees! That is far more detached from reality than stack ranki

Ah, the "never fire anyone" approach. You can train all low performers into being excellent employees! That is far more detached from reality than stack ranking is, and far more destructive than stack ranking is to a large organization. Stack ranking is exactly intended to deal with the fact that hiring a spotty, error-prone process. It says, "No, you can't only hire high performers, whether by having brilliant hiring processes or by training low performers. What you need to do is fire the low performers and roll the dice again. Because eventually the dice will roll high."