Employee Stock Options on the Precipice?

I am declaring February “Stock Option Month” at the Café (at least in relation to my posts). For more than...

Incentives Without Teeth

Pay for performance continues to grow as a solution for motivating people in a world of flat compensation. The title...

Our Nearsighted Friends and Us

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...

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...

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...

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...

Executive Pay Claw backs – Things Just (Almost) Got Real!

The date: July 1, 2015. The place: Washington D.C. The situation: The SEC proposes rules for executive compensation claw back...