tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post5926820570095114630..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Bill Gates's Ridiculous TED Talk, Part IIDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-27473796073668532772013-05-10T14:11:48.493-07:002013-05-10T14:11:48.493-07:00Why should anyone listen to Bill Gates' misgui...Why should anyone listen to Bill Gates' misguided education schemes? Microsoft's employees get 4 words of feedback- top, good, average, & poor. Bill needs to tend to his own business and leave education to the real experts. His own evaluation system FAILED Microsoft and its employees for a decade. <br /><br />http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer<br /><br />"Eichenwald’s conversations reveal that a management system known as “stack ranking”—a program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of employees as top performers, good performers, average, and poor—effectively crippled Microsoft’s ability to innovate. “Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees,” Eichenwald writes. “If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were going to get mediocre reviews, and 1 was going to get a terrible review,” says a former software developer. “It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.”Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12813056667733621829noreply@blogger.com