IDG Contributor Network: Beating the bell curve blues

“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer”Well, it might have worked for William Shakespeare, but it’s never going to work for those who manage IT people. The winter of discontent caused by having to assign performance ratings to people in conformance to a bell curve has faded, but another winter is never far away when it comes to the bell curve blues. Here’s the kind of thing I’m talking about: “All twenty of my team are high performers; why d