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Archive for category: Short-Term Incentives – STI
When Incentive Pay Goes Rogue!
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...
When the Chef Visits Your Table
Sales compensation is an uncomfortable area for many compensation professionals. Many of us have never been professional sales people. Many...
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...
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...