The performance rating system forced employees to compete for rankings, killing collaboration among employees and, worse, leading employees to avoid working with top performers, since doing so threatened to lower their own ranking as a result. While stack ranking was in effect, the article reports, the company had “mutated into something bloated and bureaucracy-laden, with an internal culture that unintentionally rewards managers who strangle innovative ideas that might threaten the established order of things.”
which is what grading on the bell curve does in education
