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I’ve just read a number of posts about how stack ranking of employees has been ruining Microsoft ’s ability to innovate. Stack ranking is one tool that Microsoft is using—perhaps misusing—to identify ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Two tech companies are drawing attention lately for how they evaluate their employees, specifically for their use of a controversial system called stack ranking, which compares employees to each other ...

Only a small percentage of employees, typically about 10%, can be designated as top performers. Meanwhile, a set number must be labeled as low performers and are often fired or pushed out, giving the ...

Stack Ranking -- forcing managers to rank their employees and get rid of the bottom ones -- is a horrible idea that Microsoft's Steve Ballmer imported from GE. As I wrote in July 2012, stack ranking ...

Under stack ranking evaluations, your colleagues become your competitors, and the workplace transforms into a battleground to curry your manager’s favor and win a higher performance ranking than your ...