The Spirit of the Holidays: Scrooge or Santa? Culture We offer a provocative way of both reconnecting with colleagues and supporting a good cause.
Should Most Employees Receive Stock Options? Culture We have a provocative proposal motivated by Google’s approach.
Is It Time to Prepare the Envelopes? Culture The idea proposed here is merely a dramatic way of implementing the basic concepts that leaders found easy to do.
Entrepreneur in Residence Culture The intent of an EIR is to provide entrepreneurial ideas in the company and draw inspiration.
Why Severance Pay? Why not Retention Pay? Culture Thinking through this provocative approach might itself be beneficial for a board that is in the process of recruiting a new CEO.
Three’s a Crowd: When CEOs Need to Bow Out of a Conversation Culture The CEO should set up the practice, then get out of the way.
Succession Planning through Musical Chairs Culture People moving to positions that senior management would never have imagined - allowing people to broaden their horizon.
Take All that Motherhood and Apple Pie Out of Your Strategic Plan Culture The resulting document, is less meaningful for an outsider but is very useful and actionable for the internal management team.
Should Stock Options be Viewed as Pay Increases? Culture A new way of looking at stock options as an increase in the targeted variable pay for the recipient.