These kinds of examples are great illustrations of how damaging stack ranking (and most other performance evaluation systems) really are. Instead of focusing on

These kinds of examples are great illustrations of how damaging stack ranking (and most other performance evaluation systems) really are. Instead of focusing on improving their team's performance by reducing the friction inherent in any corporate bureaucracies, this manager is forced to spend time playing Machiavellian games that only serve to reduce effectiveness and engender an anti-productive spirit. An illustration of why these performance evaluation systems are always going to produce statistically irrelevant results was the Red Bead experiment[0] designed by the late, great W. Edwards Deming. [0]: https://maaw.info/DemingsRedbeads.htm https://maaw.info/DemingsRedbeads.htm