The Importance of Stack Ranking

The podcasting equivalent of Julius Caesar had to flee Italy in order to avoid being murdered for his loyalty to Gaius Marius. Stack ranking is generally recognized to be incredibly toxic to morale, which has led some companies that follow Jack Welch to end the process or the practice as this quote from Fast Company makes clear. One 2013 study found that ratings based performance reviews like the ones Jack instituted often fail to change how people work. It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.