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The company that first applied that strategy, GE, ran themselves into all sorts of problems with that approach. Microsoft’s era of doing fairly poorly was also
by dv_dt 3y ago
The company that first applied that strategy, GE, ran themselves into all sorts of problems with that approach. Microsoft’s era of doing fairly poorly was also at a timeframe when they were doing rank and cut strongly.
- aaomidi 3y agoYep, and these rankings are less about performance and more about politics. You actually have a very high chance of getting an organization made out of talkers and not-doers.
- FireBeyond 3y agoThat's putting it mildly, re GE. When both Fortune and WSJ ("hardly bastions of anti-corporate sentiment", with apologies to _The Insider_) are criticizing your approach and leadership style, then you have an issue. Not to mention Jack Welch's very "Let Them Eat Cake" attitude to the middle and working classes and executive compensation.