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...

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...

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...

UPDATE ISS Equity Plan Scorecard EPSC 2.0

Have you ever played a card game with 5-year olds? Before you start, they explain the game in vague details...

What’s Equity Really Worth?

We all know that equity compensation is the driver behind the astronomic growth in executive compensation. We all know that...

How to Determine Equity Grant Sizes (it’s probably not what you think)

Determining grant sizes or values is Part 4 and the next challenge in my ongoing series, “Stock Options on the...

11 Reasons Your Equity Compensation Survey Data is Wrong

Part 3 of my ongoing “Stock Options on the Precipice” series. How much equity should I give (or get)? It’s...

HELP! Was I Just Arrested or Incentivized?

We all wish we were better at communicating. We create presentations (decks) and plan summaries (SPDs). We carefully choose our...

IN MEMORIUM: FAREWELL ANNUAL RAISE

An article was published last week with data from Aon Hewitt and Towers Watson that showed the annual pay raise is...

Combatting Self Interest in Pay

Professor Dylan Selterman (@SelterMosby) is a psychology lecturer at the University of Maryland. Earlier this summer he gave his students...