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...

How to Determine Equity Grant Sizes (it’s probably not what you think)

Determining grant sizes or values is Part 4 and the next challenge in my ongoing series, “Stock Options on the...

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...

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...