The best way for someone who wants to be a rockstar to win is by anchoring themselves to a low-performing team. If pay is based on relative performance, then y

The best way for someone who wants to be a rockstar to win is by anchoring themselves to a low-performing team. If pay is based on relative performance, then you should find the lowest performing coworkers you can. I wouldn't inherently mind explicitly tieing individual performance to (small) team level performance. In practice this often happens when management looks at performance holistically anyway.