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Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking
Nerval's Lobster writes "Microsoft once demanded that its managers place their subordinates on a scale from 'top' to 'poor,' a practice that fueled some epic backstabbing within divisions. Last year, a Microsoft contractor with knowledge of the company's internal review processes told Slashdot that Microsoft was actively working to fix that system; just this week, the company announced that stack ranking was well and truly dead (and that's certainly one way to fix it). 'Lisa Brummel, head of human resources for the company, sent an e-mail to employees notifying them of the change today, according to my contacts,' ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley wrote. According to the memo, there are 'no more ratings,' 'no more curves,' and 'Managers and leaders will have flexibility to allocate rewards in the manner that best reflects the performance of their teams and individuals, as long as they stay within their compensation budget.' They're trying to encourage more teamwork and collaboration throughout the company. As we discussed on Saturday, Yahoo is adopting this method just as Microsoft is abandoning it."
...Yesterday's Solutions Tomorrow.
Yes. It's time for a new plan. New leadership. A new face to take this once proud company and lift it up. To trod on customers in bold and unprecedented ways. To crush the employees wills in ways never before seen. To boost short-term gains for utterly amazing long-term losses in a way unheard of by mankind. In short, to make Microsoft the utterly clusterfuck it was born to be.
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Maybe Microsoft will be able to re-invent a better version of itself.
probably just changes on the Surface tho ;-)
Perhaps, version 3.11 is the one to wait for, then ;-) I heard it's good if you base your career on networking.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)