Jack Welch has died
Steve Ballmer revered Jack Welch's rank-and-yank management style.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.That's the only lens through which I have to view Mr. Welch's contributions unfortunately.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curvehttps://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/technology/enterprise/micro...