The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline
Well, one more blog post about the "ONE THING THAT KILLED MICROSOFT."<p>Nothing killed Microsoft. It just exhibited mean regression, as everything eventually does. It found itself on the very top of a mountain in an industry where you have to keep climbing to stay still.<p>The same thing happened to Apple -- it had an unprecendented string of hits with iPod/iPhone/iPad and it took competitors a few years to catch up.<p>Sometimes, a basketball player will make ten straight baskets. He'll seem invincible, then he'll make another and the crowd will go wild. But if he's a 60% shooter, at some point he'll miss a basket, and another, and another, and descend back into reality.<p>That's just how the world is.