Also: "stack and rank" or "stack ranking". He made that popular in the business journals, so all sorts of companies introduced it. It doesn't matter if every o

Also: "stack and rank" or "stack ranking". He made that popular in the business journals, so all sorts of companies introduced it. It doesn't matter if every one of your staff are supergeniuses, at least one has to be ranked "subpar" and fired that year. Stack-ranking turned Microsoft from a great place to work for into a festering bunch of backstabby politicians. It isn't enough to be a good or great worker, you must be better than your coworkers - so sabotaging their work becomes job number one. https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-stack-ranking-internal-structure https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-... https://slate.com/technology/2013/08/stack-ranking-steve-ballmer-s-employee-evaluation-system-and-microsoft-s-decline.html https://slate.com/technology/2013/08/stack-ranking-steve-bal...