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A couple of years ago, one of us gave a speech at a renowned but declining high-technology firm that used forced ranking (there, it was called a "stacking system").
"Forced ranking.
Forced ranking rather than independent rating, and by-person factor analysis rather than averaging may reveal otherwise masked typologies.
An Example: Should We Adopt Forced Ranking?
And so we do that here, raising a question that many companies have faced in recent years: Should we adopt forced ranking of our employees?
More recent research has found that when you introduce a forced ranking system into a team, people are more likely to start sabotaging each other in the hope of pushing themselves up by pushing others down.
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The Hairpin, for instance, founded in 2010 as part of the Awl network, calls itself a place for "petty enthusiasms," while The Toast, started in 2013, likens itself to "a long email chain about force-ranking the Mitford sisters" and seeks writers who are "incorrigibly bossy, or intractably odd, or happily obsessive".
SN: We more think in terms of force-ranking the best opportunities and only doing the best ones.
Those who refute our standardized testing culture spit back all the things you cannot sufficiently summarize by scribbling in a bubble, arguing that these tests aren't examinations of realistic ability, but rather, an unreliable way of forcing rank.
Under Jimmy Johnson, the Dolphins' defense has become a force, ranking first in the A.F.C. and second in the National Football League.
But Battle was the first black person appointed to New York's combined 10,000-member force, ranking 199th of 638 applicants on the police test.
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