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Search Results for: pay
Toyota Posts Record Profit: Splits $15 million in Pay and Bonus for top 21 Executives
After posting record profits of $17.9 billion Toyota proposes to increase the pay and bonus for the top 21 executives to $14.9 million. That is not as you might expect just the increase in the bonus to the CEO. That … Continue reading
More Evidence of the Damage Done by Kleptocrat CEO Pay
I have been writing about the problems of overpaid executives that has lately become so bad that “overpaid executives” doesn’t capture the nature of the problem. Today I see many CEO’s are acting as kleptocrats do – taking food out … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged business, executive pay, hiring, Investing, management research, overpaid executives, stakeholders, stockholders
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Innovative Thinking at Amazon: Paying Employees $5,000 to Quit
Amazon continues to be innovative not just in technology but with management thinking. Jeff Bezos has rejected the dictates espoused most vociferously by Wall Street mouthpieces and MBAs that encourage short term thinking and financial gimmicks which harm the long … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, Innovation, management, management system, managing people, respect for people, short term thinking, Systems thinking
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Pay Attention to the Results that Matter
Play pumps is a great sounding idea. Most people reading this blog have clean tap water a few steps away. Over a billion people today still struggle to get water every day. A common method to get water is using … Continue reading
Worse Hotel Service the More You Pay
The more you pay for your hotel room the more likely they will charge to provide decent WiFi in your room. Whether a company tries to rip you off with exorbitant prices, or lousy service, is just a function of … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged bad customer service, bad management, Customer focus, management
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When Performance-related Pay Backfires
When Economic Incentives Backfire by Samuel Bowles, Sante Fe Institute Dozens of recent experiments show that rewarding self-interest with Economic incentives can backfire when they undermine what Adam Smith called “the moral sentiments.” Punished by Rewards, by Alfie Kohn, is … Continue reading
Community Banks Ask Why They Must Pay for Wall Street Greed
Minnesota Bank Asks Why It Pays for Wall Street Greed TCF is among more than 8,300 banks and lenders insured by the FDIC facing increased fees and a one-time “emergency” charge designed to raise $27 billion this year for the … Continue reading
Japan Airlines CEO on CEO Pay
Nice webbast of CNN clip on Japan Airlines CEO cutting his pay to less than that of the pilots. He really seems to understand the company does not exist for him to plunder (unlike so many CEOs in the USA). … Continue reading
Tilting at Ludicrous CEO Pay 2008
I continue to tilt at the robber barron CEO pay packages (2007 post on CEO pay abuses). 2007 pay rank Company CEO Pay 5 Year Pay CEO % of 2007 Earnings 1 Apple Steve Jobs $646,600,000 $650,170,000 18.5% 2 Occidental … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Economics, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged commentary, curiouscat, Economics, executive pay, overpaid executives, quote, respect for people, stakeholders
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Another Year of CEO’s Taking Hugely Excessive Pay
I continue to do my part to publicize the abusive CEO pay packages that the current crop of unethical CEO’s, and those sitting on corporate boards have supported (Tilting at Ludicrous CEO Pay 2008 – 2007 post on CEO pay … Continue reading →