Archive for November, 2013

Microsoft Stops Stacked Ranking

Last year I posted an entry in this blog that discussed the flaws of a stacked ranking performance management system. (See “Grading on a Curve: Does it Work?”  posted o8/07/2012. ) Stacked ranking was popularized by Jack Welch of GE and was in use at Microsoft. With stacked ranking  at Microsoft, employees were ranked from 1 to 5, with the person who ranked 5 in the group at risk for reassignment or dismissal. This tended to encourage competition, rather than ...

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Is Positive Intellligence a Better Predictor of Success?

In earlier posts I have touted the importance of emotional intelligence for  career success.  But I recently read an article in qz.com that adds another important dimension.

Shirzad Chamine  was a Stanford MBA student when he was informed by some fellow students that they always felt judged by him.  After some soul searching, Chamine  named this judge inside his mind a “sabateur.” Our minds, he says, can be our best friend or our worst enemy. The sabateur  judges, controls, is a ...

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