Sleep well sweet Prince, or perhaps Emperor. We now send executive compensation to its inevitable peaceful and infinite slumber. Shown brightly for a few decades, your glory days are over. April 29, 2015 was officially the beginning of the end of soaring executive pay. The SEC proposed a new rule on executive pay for performance,...
I generally write about incentive compensation, executive compensation and performance issues, but today’s post is written from a very different perspective. I hope you will bear with me on this. “Living Wage” is a term thrown about casually in the media and among politicians. It is not minimum wage. In fact, it has a very...
The IPO market has remained strong for a while now. Equity compensation is a huge part of compensation at IPO. Yet, for all the publicity stock-based compensation receives, it is still mostly a mystery to those involved. Most of us know that an Initial Public Offering is a way to get your company’s stock into...
My 16-month old nephew inspires today’s posting. The other day, while watching a video of him, I couldn’t help be amazed at the vastness o f his world. This is true both in physical space and size relative to his little body. He lives in a small town in Nebraska, but it couldn’t seem larger...
The image below is from a recent post by famed author and Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely. Take a quick look to see if you can figure it out in 30 seconds or less. Reports tell us that 55% of people spend less than 15 seconds reviewing any piece of content on the internet. I have...
We’ve all heard some version of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling“ at some point in our lives. For the record, the original is sadder and more intense than I remember. The summary is this. A bird is hatched. It is ugly and misunderstood. Others ostracize it without even knowing what it is. It doesn’t...
The pay ratios between CEOs and average employees are once again in the news. This is partly because proxy season always raises this issue and partly because there is a move in some circles to do away with the new pay ratio disclose rule that is part of Dodd-Frank. This year’s ratios will likely be...
Are we really doing anything? We create salary structures and write job descriptions. We organization our data and provide reports up and down the organization. We do a lot, but how much of it is making us competitive in a tight talent market? The “annual Increase.” Sometimes we even call it a merit increase. According...
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