Companies are trudging their way through this slow and often painful economic recovery. Reorganization has become a mantra of survival,...
Equity Compensation: Gift, Reward or Lease?
Skype as been vilified for buying back shares from vested and exercised stock options (see details here and here). The ...
The P90X Workout and Effective Performance Compensation
I like finding unique training tools for compensation professionals. My newest addition is the P90X training system. For those of...
Compensation: A Foundation Like a Ship, Not a Building
This concept came to me at a recent compensation philosophy engagement. During an employee interview session I explained that the...
They Still Create New Music with the Old 12 Notes, You Can Do the Same with Compensation
The basic scale used in western music incorporates 12 notes. The scale has only five lives (staves). This combination of...
Total Rewards and a Farmers Market Strategy
It is fact that poor food choices lead to poor health. Of course, there are many other contributors, but when...
Are Your Compensation Goals Getting You to the Top of the Wrong Mountain?
So often we see companies whose executives are paid handsomely only to falter shortly after. How does this happen? Goals...
Companies Deserve Pay Transparency, Too
This article originally appeared on Robin A. Ferracone’s “Executive Pay Watch” blog on Forbes.com. “For today’s Executive Pay Watch blog,...
Icing is Nice, but Frosting is Essential (Compensation is like Cupcakes)
How is compensation like a cupcake? Is it just that people crave it, or is it something far more fundamental?...
Are You Pushing the Wrong Rock up the Hill?
We all know the story about Sisyphus, the man who was sentenced for eternity to roll a stone up a...