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To: Enlightened1

I hate the vitality curve concept. You can build a team of high achievers. Great people. Smart, energetic, dedicated people. Wonderful team. Guess what? 10% of your team is required to be designated as LOSERS who need to be fired and replaced. Every year.


7 posted on 03/02/2020 6:11:24 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The article said Welch only applied it to managers to cut bureaucracy. Other than that, I hate it, too.


11 posted on 03/02/2020 6:13:12 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I hate the vitality curve concept.”

Same here, and I see it within my own Dept. You have a team that excels as a team. But if you artificially take a razor blade to them as individuals and rank them by minutia, you’ll have a bottom 10%. They are still excellent individuals and fully contribute to the team. It’s counter productive.


18 posted on 03/02/2020 6:21:54 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: ClearCase_guy
I have seen this in action.
It works the first 1 or 2 times, but then you wind up with mostly ppeople who are good at "playing the game" but not necessarily the acheivers.
The ex-GE people I've worked with that came out of the Welch era under that paradigm--some were pretty good, but the bulk were a**holes.
28 posted on 03/02/2020 6:42:31 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: ClearCase_guy
I hate the vitality curve concept. You can build a team of high achievers. Great people. Smart, energetic, dedicated people. Wonderful team. Guess what? 10% of your team is required to be designated as LOSERS who need to be fired and replaced. Every year.

100% agree... I worked under that system at Dow and at another company later. It's OK if you have a TON of people in your rating group... (like, 100 or more)… but, even then, 10% FORCED turnover is stupid, expensive, and counterproductive.

It's especially devastating when you try to apply it to a group as small as 20, or less... which, the brainiacs running Dow attempted to do.

47 posted on 03/02/2020 9:31:57 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I was involved in a joint venture with GE in the Welch era and one of the first things I learned from the GE managers was “there is always a bottom 10%”.

We bought his book and read it!


52 posted on 03/02/2020 11:04:06 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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