You missed the part that in a team of good performers, (i.e. no dead woods in the team), it ends up being a defacto "random" system.... when it comes to actual

You missed the part that in a team of good performers, (i.e. no dead woods in the team), it ends up being a defacto "random" system.... when it comes to actual performance, and that's where politiking and favoritisms kick in. Both have the "Culture of Fear" as a central point, and yes, stack ranking has its roots on the Roman Decimation system. http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/performance-improvement-plans-and-the-culture-of-fear http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/performance-impr...