I like a lot of the stuff in these slides, but "adequate performance means you're fired" always seemed stupid to me. It's a contradiction. If your work needs to

I like a lot of the stuff in these slides, but "adequate performance means you're fired" always seemed stupid to me. It's a contradiction. If your work needs to be better to keep your job, your work is by definition inadequate. You can't have stars in every position because stars are the people who stand out from the other people. It just doesn't make any sense outside of a motivational poster. You could say instead "performance that would be perfectly adequate at most other companies is a firing offense here." That actually means something. I don't like that one, but at least it has a meaning. Everything ELSE about this presentation is nice, but it's weird to write all that great information about how "mottos chiseled in stone in the front gate are useless" and then write "we only employ stars!"