In 2006, not long after he left his post as CEO of Microsoft Israel, Aryeh Skop delivered an address at the Open University. In Haaretz’s report on the event, on January 16 by Tomer Keren, Skop was quoted saying: “We cultivate excellence. We don’t want average people who push pencils on their desks. Each year we evaluate our workers, and people rated in the bottom five percent are fired, even if they are...
Microsoft’s mediocrity
The 'race' of workers produced by Microsoft under its evaluation policy is one of employees obsessed by the issue of what bosses will say about them, rather than what customers want. That’s no recipe for success.
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