Remember that time you spent weeks modeling a new incentive plan only to have it shot down? They explained that...
Archive for tag: Performance Management
The Real Cost of Mismanaged Incentives: Wells Fargo
Well, so much for the warm-hearted caffeinated, pick-me-up from the Comp Café. Today is a steaming jolt of quadruple espresso...
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...
Are Your Pay Plans Just New Hire “Click Bait”?
“You won’t believe what this star from the ‘80’s look like now!” “The best banana bread EVER!” “This great trend...
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...
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...
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...
Combatting Self Interest in Pay
Professor Dylan Selterman (@SelterMosby) is a psychology lecturer at the University of Maryland. Earlier this summer he gave his students...