Steve Ballmer revered Jack Welch's rank-and-yank management style.
During the 2000s and early 2010s Microsoft's stack-rank reviews were infamous for the internal politics created. Didn't matter if you had a full team of top-tier engineers, the bottom 15% WAS going to get managed out. Savvy managers would hire low-tier performers to protect the productive ones.
That's the only lens through which I have to view Mr. Welch's contributions unfortunately.
During the 2000s and early 2010s Microsoft's stack-rank reviews were infamous for the internal politics created. Didn't matter if you had a full team of top-tier engineers, the bottom 15% WAS going to get managed out. Savvy managers would hire low-tier performers to protect the productive ones.
That's the only lens through which I have to view Mr. Welch's contributions unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
https://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/technology/enterprise/micro...