A friend of mine likes to say: “It’s not that incentive pay doesn’t work well, it’s that it works TOO...
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...
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”...
A New Grad Schools Us on Performance Management
This is my first non-equity focused article in a few months but a high school graduate inspired me to change direction...
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...
How Will The New Overtime Rules Affect You?
Is your mind already racing about how the new overtime regulations will affect your company? The media is buzzing about...
A Chrome Panda Predicts Demise of Stock Options
On May 7, 2016, it was reported that a giant chrome panda predicted the imminent crippling of stock options in...
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...
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...