PRIME MOVERS
Signature Move1 book · 2 highlights

Thirty Percent Turnover as Pruning Not Failure

Books Teaching This Pattern

Twenty-First-Century Management _ the Revolutionary Strategies That Have Made Computer Associates a Multibillion-Dollar Software Giant by Unknown — book cover

Twenty-First-Century Management _ the Revolutionary Strategies That Have Made Computer Associates a Multibillion-Dollar Software Giant

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2 evidence highlights

Evidence

Twenty-First-Century Management _ the Revolutionary Strategies That Have Made Computer Associates a Multibillion-Dollar Software Giant by Unknown — book cover

  1. “sports. CA’s general turnover rate is at least 30 percent, from 20 percent in development to 75 percent in sales. This ruthless pruning is a result of the principal aspect of CA that sets it apart from all other American companies.”

  2. “When it is a case of someone not being able to do the work, however, the stick that CA wields is loss of responsibility, per- haps with a couple of chances at other jobs. Charles: “Just don’t pass around the turkeys.’ But only up to a point. A middle manager: “This is not the kind of place where you virtually have to murder someone to get fired. What I really like about CA is it’s almost like winning. It’s like only the best survive. What you have left is very brilliant people.””

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