Similar to when we are driving, compensation professionals must be acutely aware of the conditions around us when we want...
Archive for category: Equity Compensation
The Top 4 Risks in Pay for Performance
Mar 22,2012March 22, 2012
Pay for Performance, (“P4P” for us cool compensation pros) is all the rage. Those of you who read my postings...
Executive Compensation: The Political-Taxation Conspiracy
Mar 12,2012March 12, 2012
We hear the cries every day. “Executives make too much money. Let’s raise their taxes!” “Executives are our job creators....
Is it Time to Change the Equity Compensation Paradigm?
Feb 13,2012February 13, 2012
Even with the explosion in performance-based equity, most equity compensation plans look very much like they did almost twenty years...
How to Explain Stock Options to a Dog
Nov 29,2011November 29, 2011
Stock options are one of the most used and least understood tools in the compensation toolbox. Recently, a new optionee ...
Goldilocks and the 3 Broad-based Stock Plans
Nov 10,2011November 10, 2011
There once was a dedicated professional who was tasked with creating a company-wide stock plan at her new company. Henrietta...
Equity Compensation Data for Start-ups and Other Private Companies-2011
Nov 02,2011November 2, 2011
During the month of November I’m going to focus on my equity compensation roots. With both the IPO and M&A...
How is Pay for Performance like Driving a Fire Truck?
Aug 08,2011August 8, 2011
San Francisco has lots of tall buildings, so we need those cool ladder fire trucks that you see in the...
Equity Compensation: Gift, Reward or Lease?
Jul 06,2011July 6, 2011
Skype as been vilified for buying back shares from vested and exercised stock options (see details here and here). The ...
They Still Create New Music with the Old 12 Notes, You Can Do the Same with Compensation
Jun 01,2011June 1, 2011
The basic scale used in western music incorporates 12 notes. The scale has only five lives (staves). This combination of...