Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money
Money should be the reward for building strong, long-term sustainable organizations and not given as the primary motivation for showing up or simply making the quarter or even the year.
Money should be the reward for building strong, long-term sustainable organizations and not given as the primary motivation for showing up or simply making the quarter or even the year.
techcrunch.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology
In most years, come rain or shine, executive pay at technology startups always goes up because the competition for talent is always so intense. In 200...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
The man known as President Obama's "czar" of CEO pay, Kenneth Feinberg, said on Thursday that he finds the title "unfortunate" and believes that the c...
footnoted.org | Michelle Leder | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
What a year it has been [for Vonage] under Lefar. When he joined the company, Vonage stock was trading at around $1.50 and a little over a year later ...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration recently announced pay limits for bailed-out CEOs. But unless the IRS changes its policies, taxpayers will continue to subsidize unreasonable compensation paid by publicly held corporations.
Penny Herscher | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
There is so much written about fat cat CEOs and their unfair pay packages that it's a question worth pondering. The hard part is judging what is fair and necessary to get the talent you want, and what the market dictates.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
If Obama's bill to restrain executive pay is a victory, I don't know what a defeat would look like. The bill does not limit any one's pay by one penny.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
What part of being a CEO could be so difficult -- so impossible for mere mortals -- that it would mean that there are only a few hundred individuals in the United States capable of performing it?
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
Can a zebra change it's stripes? Think of the people you know who have reached adulthood exhibiting deep attitudes of entitlement, selfishness and av...
Les Leopold | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business
How the mighty have fallen!
nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's sweeping new proposal to restrict executive pay is likely to be a humbling exercise for seven of the nation's...
AP | RACHEL BECK and MATTHEW FORDAHL | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — CEOs are taking a hit from the recession _ less total compensation, smaller bonuses, nearly worthless stock options _ but their compa...
Yahoo! Finance | Kim Dixon | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More U.S. chief executives got pay raises than had their pay cut in 2008, a year when billions in taxpayer dollars went to prop...
Chicago Sun-Times | Sandra Guy | Posted 05.13.2009 | Chicago
Chief executives' pay has become the Enron of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression -- how can leaders who make tens of millions of do...
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
Obama pressured GM CEO, Rick Wagoner to step down; here are five other CEOs he should consider firing.
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business
It's proxy statement season! Buried within the SEC filings are gems that shed light on a company, including CEO compensation. Among the recent fin...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — A group representing 100,000 retirees said Tuesday it is going to vote against the pay package for Verizon's chief executive, saying ...
Huffington Post via WSJ | Julie Satow | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
Several chief executives were handsomely paid last year even though their company performed terribly, the Wall Street Journal reports. By most mea...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
Companies may be floundering, but some chief executives continue to see their pay checks grow. According to Crain's New York Business: Amid the...
Bill Donius | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
The financial mess is bringing to the light that many boards were unable to properly perform the oversight role they are charged to do with public companies. What happened?
Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.
David Paul | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business
It needs to be said: The Congress of the United States has no business setting the terms of executive compensation.
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
On CBS Thursday morning, Steve Forbes commented on whether there is something wrong when, in 2006, for example, the average CEO made as much in a sing...
Huff TV | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
Arianna and Pablo Camacho respond to this year's "Davos Debates" question: should company executives have a code of ethics similar to doctors and lawyers?
Penny Herscher | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business
In the first 9 months of 2008 the number of CEOs who left their jobs hit a record high. In tough times good boards are looking at whether they have the right CEO.
Simon Sinek | Posted 12.15.2009 | Business