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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

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371 points greggyb | 1 comments | 28 Oct 24 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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FuriouslyAdrift ◴[29 Oct 24 13:17 UTC] No.41983561[source]▶
Everyone forgetting about Lisa Brummel and "stack ranking"?

That nearly ruined Microsoft...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-ditches-syst...

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fsckboy ◴[29 Oct 24 14:01 UTC] No.41983931[source]▶
"grading on a curve" is a good idea, and if athletics wasn't run that way, nobody would watch.

that doesn't mean it's easy to implement, manage, or impossible to game, or that it plays nice wrt human factors, but to attack the core idea as essentially wrong is anti math, science, and rationality.

Microsoft always suffered from rewarding egotists and political animals over people who did actual work.

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1. sealeck ◴[29 Oct 24 15:48 UTC] No.41985345[source]▶
> "grading on a curve" is a good idea, and if athletics wasn't run that way, nobody would watch.

Good thing that enterprise software and athletics are different things!