Did Jack Welch Destroy US Productivity?

Forced Employee Ranking, a process that ensures incompetence in companies, has been sourced, as a failure, to Jack Welch -- the guy credited with turning around GE. I began to wonder if much of what he was credited with actually created what now appears to be a cancer in that company, and in Microsoft, and that the reason folks haven't been able to fix it is because it came from such a well-regarded expert.

Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/216328f5/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C756280Bhtml/story01.htm

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