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At GE there was only one objective, and that was to force honesty I thought the purpose was to fire thousands of GE employees? Most of the articles I've read
by forgottenpass 13y ago
At GE there was only one objective, and that was to force honesty
I thought the purpose was to fire thousands of GE employees? Most of the articles I've read on this make it should like whatever problems/frustration it caused at Microsoft stemmed from the fact they were using stack rank without the goal of reducing headcount across the board.
- mathattack 13y agoMaybe he's not being honest with himself? :-) But I have heard elsewhere that a big reason behind doing this is it forces managers to not be wishy washy telling everyone how great they are. It's very hard to enforce the discipline of tough conversations in organizations where there are long lines of people waiting to be promoted. GE is a prime example of this. People aren't there to invent great technology, or make a financial killing. Therefore the senior engineer doesn't have status. It's the senior manager that does.
- brg 13y agoI thought the goal was not to fire employees, but instead to identify and address the situation. I have often been told that the goal of Welch's management style is to identify the top 10% and reward them heavily, and to identify the bottom 10% and find out how to help them improve. Honesty is necessary if that is true.