I have a brother with 20:15 vision. For those of you normal humans, this means he can see things clearly...
Navigating the Whitewater of LTI Design
Someone recently asked me to explain how I knew what direction to take plan design conversations. She had participated in...
Big Bucks, Tiny Details and Multiple Personalities
When it comes to compensation, it’s easy to get caught up in strategy and communication. We know that missing a...
You are Not Lebron James (or Facebook, or Google)
Lebron James has just become the youngest person in NBA history to score 25,000 points in his career. He is...
Do Worker’s Want Shares or Cash? as quoted in the WSJ
Dan Walter, President and CEO of Performensation was quoted in this article on the topic of more broad-based use of...
Delicious Amber Transparency
We talk a lot about pay transparency. It seems like half the time half of compensation professionals argue for more...
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...
Let’s Get Rid of ISOs, ESPPs and Voting for President
Incentive Stock Options, or ISOs, have been the foundation of tech company stock option programs for the past three decades....
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...
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...