In 2012, journalist Kurt Eichenwald published a devastating exposé in Vanity Fair. Microsoft, he reported, had become a place where talented people fought each other instead of the competition. The culprit was stack ranking. Every review cycle, managers sorted employees into a fixed curve of winners and losers. Rankings were updated once a year. Between reviews, everyone knew who the previous cycle’s winners were and copied them.
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