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April 24, 2006
bad ideas
The 20/70/10 is the worst idea to come out of GE. It's the idea that top 20% gets rewarded while the bottom 10% gets shown the door. Although, the perfomance assessments are not solely based on financial results and half is actually devoted to corporate fit, it is still a bad idea. It strangles any real sense of cooperation and substitutes it with an unauthentic sense of cooperation. It promotes distrust in others and in the company. Most importantly, it keeps people from seeking to improve for their own job satisfaction but instead improve to some arbitrary ruler.
This idea sounds like it came from someone who lack understanding of the postmodern generation.
I liked these authors of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management. I agree with Bob Sutton that managers don't seem to understand the quantity and velocity of change is critical to change management. Change is absolutely required but you require the resisters to keep you from going too fast.
Posted by azileretsis at April 24, 2006 09:34 AM
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