Jack Welch has died
Steve Ballmer revered Jack Welch's rank-and-yank management style.<p>During the 2000s and early 2010s Microsoft's stack-rank reviews were infamous for the internal politics created.  Didn't matter if you had a full team of top-tier engineers, the bottom 15% WAS going to get managed out.  Savvy managers would hire low-tier performers to protect the productive ones.<p>That's the only lens through which I have to view Mr. Welch's contributions unfortunately.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve</a><p><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/technology/enterprise/microsoft-stack-ranking/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/technology/enterprise/micro...</a>