Comments on: Excessive Executive Pay

By: CuriousCat Management » Another Year of Overpaid CEOs

CuriousCat Management » Another Year of Overpaid CEOs — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:54:08 +0000

The incredible failure of the culture as a whole, that has enabled corporate cleptocracy to become the dominate culture of so many of our companies, is very disheartening…

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Community Banks Asks Why They Must Pay for Wall Street Greed

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:53:33 +0000

[...] See my post from 2005 on the problems massively excessive pay will result in: “The excesses are so great now they will either force companies to take huge risks to justify such pay and then go bankrupt…” [...]

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » What’s the Value of a Big Bonus?

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:42:10 +0000

We all know monetary bonuses can influence behavior. The problem is the type of behaviors that result. Huge bonuses, for example, create huge incentives to risk the future of the company for the chance at a huge bonus for the executive…

By: Curious Cat Management Blog » CEOs Plundering Corporate Coffers

Curious Cat Management Blog » CEOs Plundering Corporate Coffers — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:33:11 +0000

I must say I am amazed at how brazenly those participating in looting companies from within are; and how it is accepted. It is a shame such unethical behavior is tolerated…

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Drucker Opinion Essays from the WSJ

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:53:10 +0000

In 1977, he was mainly worried about “the public” rising against excessive executive pay when there was no systemic problem… When the system broke, he then spoke out against unjustified looting of corporate treasuries

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Unconscionable Executive Pay

Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Unconscionable Executive Pay — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:18:52 +0000

Excessive executive pay is both a sign of awful ethics and a driver of bad management action. I add two new diseases of western management to Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases; massively overpaid executives is one …

By: CuriousCat: Tilting at Ludicrous CEO Pay

CuriousCat: Tilting at Ludicrous CEO Pay — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:21:44 +0000

I continue to tilt at the robber barron CEO pay packages. Hopefully, at some point, the people approving these obscene pay packages can be shamed into stopping or replaced by people with some sense of decency…

By: Compensation at Whole Foods

Compensation at Whole Foods — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:06:21 +0000

[...] This is the kind of data you would expect if people are the organization’s most important resource. If instead senior management thinks the company exists to fund their lavish lifestyle and only needs to do other things like provide value to customers, reward investors [...]

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » More on Overpaid CEO’s

Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » More on Overpaid CEO’s — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:42:35 +0000

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By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Blog Archive » More on Obscene CEO Pay

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:48:07 +0000

it will take quite a deal of reducing these ridiculous “pay” packages to reach some sense of decency…