Is there a place for Stack Ranking? Squirrel and Jeffrey concur that Stack Racking can be problematic, but Jeffrey has some ideas about where this sub-par practice comes from, which underline the importance of difficult conversations about performance no matter how you create them (even with a stack rank)

Links:

- Vitality Curve (Stack Ranking):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

- Poppendiecks on compensation: http://www.poppendieck.com/pdfs/Compensation.pdf

- Chesterton’s Fence: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence

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