When evaluating employee performance, consider how goals were achieved. In today’s competitive business environment, where so much depends on the...
Archive for category: Pay For Performance
162(m) – Created to Slow Public Companies, but a Real Accelerator for Start-ups
Aug 29,2013August 29, 2013
Twenty years ago, 162(m) was enacted by Congress. The purpose of this rule was to slow executive pay growth by...
Stock Options Won’t go the Way of the Dodo Bird
Aug 29,2013August 29, 2013
On August 27, 2013, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Last Gasp for Stock Options?” The...
Compensation Players, Coaches and Referees
Aug 14,2013August 14, 2013
The NFL pre-season is once again upon us. New rules, players, coaches and referees, means new mistakes and new opportunities...
Now Playing – “The Statistics”
Jul 03,2013July 3, 2013
In our world of sound bites and summaries, statistics are playing an increasingly important role. They are the basis of...
Share Price Not Always Linked to Performance
Jun 12,2013June 12, 2013
Recently, Financial Times published an article titled “Share price windfall reignites debate over executive pay.” Reigniting a fire that has...
Executive P4P: What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
May 20,2013May 20, 2013
It’s an age-old negotiation. Pay me more and I will perform. Perform better and I will pay you. So, what...
The One Equity Compensation Trend to Rule Them All
May 09,2013May 9, 2013
Performance equity has taken a long journey. Initially, its use was inhibited by accounting rules that made it far more...
Equity Compensation – Performance Accelerated Units (PAUs), Old School Performance Equity
May 09,2013May 9, 2013
As I mentioned in an earlier post, performance equity instruments still get lumped together like a bowl of mixed nuts....
Switzerland Pay – Great for Employees, Less So for Execs
Apr 30,2013April 30, 2013
In the past several months, Switzerland has made some interesting compensation headlines. Swiss voters recently passed a referendum on executive...