With the exception of Box 7, large companies arguably require employees in all eight other boxes in order to function long term.

A company cannot be full of only high potential/high performer employees since there are not enough positions at the top to provide adequate promotion opportunities. With this in mind, if you presided over such a system in a large organization, how would you regulate it? Would an employee’s location in this nine-

box system be revealed to the employee? Or would this make someone in Box 3 overconfident, while demotivating and causing someone in Box 1 to quit? Explain.