The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline
Well, one more blog post about the "ONE THING THAT KILLED MICROSOFT."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.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.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.That's just how the world is.