. Former Apple executive and current Guardian columnist Jean-Louis Gassée has spotted some particularly interesting details stashed away in a long Vanity Fair piece about Microsoft's (MSFT) decline from its position as a top innovator. While the Vanity Fair piece lists several reasons for Microsoft's woes, one of the most jarring is its practice of “stack ranking” employees during performance reviews that transforms a routine HR practice into a “Gladiator“-style death match where workers are encouraged to back-stab one another at the expense of cooperation.
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