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Quotes: How "Stack Ranking" Ruined Microsoft

Quotes2Yes, we need fair and rigorous evaluations, with real consequences.. but we must be very careful not to create a Wall Street-type hyper-competitive culture that would destroy the teamwork that’s so critical to well-functioning schools.  -- Hedge fund guy Whitney Tilson, riffing off Vanity Fair article on toxic environment at Microsoft

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Microsoft always ran itself as a business. That’s simply how it’s worked, as impersonal and cold as that may seem. That’s why, statistics tell us, you’re most likely reading this via a Microsoft OS right now.

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