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> My gut is stack ranking came about because a business school graduate realized that performance is probably distributed among a bell curve (it probably is) I
by dilyevsky 4y ago
> My gut is stack ranking came about because a business school graduate realized that performance is probably distributed among a bell curve (it probably is)
I’m fairly sure it really isn’t. Unless you hire random folks from the street it’s likely pareto or close. Which makes bottom 5% firing even more dumb because in the fat tail they’re all pretty close
- ncallaway 4y ago> it’s likely pareto or close Which makes bottom 5% firing even more dumb Sure, I'd agree with that. I was just trying to say I can see where the "on paper" logic comes from. But the on paper falls apart in the real world, where we're not dealing with "resources", but people. But, yea, I think even the "on paper" case is weaker than it naively appears.
- LarsDu88 4y agoWith a Pareto distribution you may as well fire the bottom 30-40%, but I suspect the remaining 60% of workers will redistribute their relative contributions again to go back to a roughly 80/20 split of relative contribution.
- dilyevsky 4y agoThat’s right the 80/20 arises from hierarchy and associated bias in how the work is being assigned unless you happened to pick up highly uneven talent which is unlikely.