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 is your next haircut!” It happens to everyone. We see the headline and click through to...
View ArticleApplying Pixar’s “22 Rules of Storytelling” to Pay
What do ‘Up’, ‘Cars’, ‘Inside Out’, ‘Monsters, Inc’, ‘Ratatouille’, ‘Toy Story 3’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Toy Story’ and ‘WALL-E’ have in common? First, they are 10 of the best animated...
View ArticleBroadway Acts on Sharing Success
You build it. You buy it. This may become the new mantra on Broadway. The original cast of Hamilton was recently followed by the new cast of Disney’s Frozen in receiving a share of the success of the...
View Article%-#-$ – Startup Equity: It’s Enough to Make You Swear!
Figuring out the right amount of equity compensation at startups is a challenge. How much should I grant? How big should the grant be? How should I size the grant relative to base pay? Investors,...
View ArticleStartup Equity: Isn’t It Refreshing? (maybe not) – (Part 6 of an n part series)
The historically long periods between the startup and “big event” for companies has given rise to many issues that were never considered when stock options and other equity tools first became the...
View ArticleStartup Equity: The Most Common Mistake (Part 7 of an n part series)
Here is my 2017 gift to you. I truly believe that equity compensation helped build the technology industry, and therefore the world as we know it. But, an unfortunate number of startups make the same...
View ArticleStartup Equity: Staying Private in a Public World (Part 11 in an n part series)
It is readily accepted that an IPO is Nirvana to a startup. Of course, a fantabulous acquisition will also work in a pinch. Most startups design their equity plans around one or both of these...
View ArticleLet’s All Do Nothing About Pay
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...
View ArticleCompounding Our Pay Problems
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...
View ArticleIs Your Compensation Philosophy Active or Passive?
Philosophers probably have a difficult time with our definition of “philosophy.” Most resources will tell you that a compensation philosophy is a statement explaining the company’s position about pay....
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