The Real Cost of Mismanaged Incentives: Wells Fargo

Well, so much for the warm-hearted caffeinated, pick-me-up from the Comp Café. Today is a steaming jolt of quadruple espresso...

Applying Pixar’s “22 Rules of Storytelling” to Pay

What do ‘Up’, ‘Cars’, ‘Inside Out’, ‘Monsters, Inc’, ‘Ratatouille’, ‘Toy Story 3’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Toy Story’ and ‘WALL-E’...

FABulous Pay Improves Talent Acquisition

How are great salespeople able to seamlessly turn every one of your concerns into a demonstration of the prowess of...

Executive Pay Has Been Fixed on Both Sides of the Pond!

In the past week there have been two major reports describing how to fix executive compensation. The first is from...

What Do You REALLY Know About Pay?

Before there were photographs, sailors would return from long trips and describe animals to artists who would then create “official”...

Evolving Equity Like It’s a Flying Machine

Other professionals in HR, compensation and investing frequently ask why I am so passionate about changing the way companies use...

LinkedIn, Microsoft and “Stock-based Compensation”

I just had someone send me an article titled “REASON BEHIND THE MICROSOFT-LINKEDIN DEAL”. The premise behind that article is...

A Small Problem for Compensation Professionals

This is not the article I intended to post today. I had something else ready to go, but realized this...

Why Equity and Not Just a Bigger Salary?

This February, the Harvard Business Review published Stop Paying Executives for Performance” by Dan Cable and Freek Vermeulen. The basis...