Letting go of good people to retain the very best doesn't sound like a problem. Letting go of the very best to retain the most difficult to replace, on the other hand...
Also stack ranking requires a great leader with courage in the top who actually has the vision to take things down to the last employee. For this you need to cut bureaucracy, bring in meritocracy. And do nearly every thing your traditional exec can't.
The reason this fails is some clueless MBA's in the name of case studies take it up and blindly without knowing the spirit behind it apply to anything and everything under the sun.
Each leader has his style you can take some lessons from it. But you can't be that leader copy cloned and template act everything he did. When you do, you only do it ritually and not in spirit.
Which is what cause things like Stack Ranking to no be viable else where. Because you are not thinking as Jack Welch did, you are trying to imitate his action and hope to get the same results.
Also stack ranking requires a great leader with courage in the top who actually has the vision to take things down to the last employee. For this you need to cut bureaucracy, bring in meritocracy. And do nearly every thing your traditional exec can't.
The reason this fails is some clueless MBA's in the name of case studies take it up and blindly without knowing the spirit behind it apply to anything and everything under the sun.
Each leader has his style you can take some lessons from it. But you can't be that leader copy cloned and template act everything he did. When you do, you only do it ritually and not in spirit.
Which is what cause things like Stack Ranking to no be viable else where. Because you are not thinking as Jack Welch did, you are trying to imitate his action and hope to get the same results.