The most common question asked about equity compensation is only two words: “How much?” For private companies, it is frustratingly...
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Paying Everyone Equally is a Terrible Idea
Many of you may have read about Gravity Payments, the company in Seattle, Washington with the magnanimous CEO who decided...
5 Lessons for a Compensation Department of None
Over the last few years, we have seen a rise in attention to the all too common, “HR Department of...
Is Your Company Lying About Pay?
David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina did some research in 2012 for the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University....
1.8 Million Reasons NOT to Become CEO
Being the CEO of a company is a great job, if you can get it. It’s an even better job...
HR Can’t Afford to Ignore Compensation
A generous person gave three business partners $1 million and said they could use it however they wanted. The only...
There are Only Two Pay Philosophies
We, the compensation professionals of planet earth, work hard to define the whys and hows of our pay programs. We...
Silence Isn’t Golden
I hope your employees aren’t complaining about your compensation programs. If they are complaining out loud, then the problem has...
8 Ways the Minneapolis Skyway is Like Incentive Compensation
Those of you who regularly read my articles know I often view the world from a different perspective. This is...
The Best Performance Goals Are D.U.M.B.
Anyone who has taken a class or performed a Google-search on performance goals has learned about the concept of “SMART”...