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Morning Advantage: Microsoft's Downfall?

Harvard Business Review

This abstract pulls out some of the key management missteps: forcing experimental new projects into P&L rigor too early; forcing new products to use Windows, even as it hampered their viability; and forcing managers to use "stack ranking," in which employee performance is graded on a curve. 50 SHADES OF I-WANT-IT-TODAY.

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