OMG! You Were Right All Along!

Remember that time you spent weeks modeling a new incentive plan only to have it shot down? They explained that...

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...

“Employee-Friendly” Equity Compensation

In this sixth installment of my “Stock Options on the Precipice” series (other articles: 1, 2,3, 4, 5), I will...

Equity Compensation: I Have the Cure You Seek!

Is your equity program on the fritz? Are your stock options in the dump? Could your RSUs use a bit...

Employee Stock Options on the Precipice?

I am declaring February “Stock Option Month” at the Café (at least in relation to my posts). For more than...

Incentives Without Teeth

Pay for performance continues to grow as a solution for motivating people in a world of flat compensation. The title...

Our Nearsighted Friends and Us

I have a brother with 20:15 vision. For those of you normal humans, this means he can see things clearly...

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...

Speed, Velocity and Acceleration in Pay

I was reading a Facebook message a parent posted about their kid’s physics homework and it resonated as a reminder...

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