Management Questions

• Do the company and its leaders have a sense of higher purpose in what they do?

Source:
Making Sense of Executive Pay
by Marcia Blenko
Bain & Company, 1/1/2003

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• Is your strategy clear?
• Can it be translated into action?
• Is it measurable?
• Does it have the potential to transform your business?
• Do you measure the true drivers of value in your business?
• Do you link your executive compensation to what drives value – key strategic and financial measures as well as relative share price?
• Are your executives motivated to create a dramatic upside for shareholders?
• Is there a downside for mediocre performance?
• Are key front-line employees focused on the same goals and motivated to deliver results?
• Do incentives reinforce a “performance culture”?
• Is your compensation system simple and transparent?
• Does everyone understand how pay is linked to performance?

Source:
Making Sense of Executive Pay
by Marcia Blenko
Bain & Company, 1/1/2003

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Ram Charan and Julie Schlosser recommend the best questions every board member and shareholder should ask to get to the heart of what they should know about a company. Ten disarmingly simple questions. “so simple in fact, that we often forget to — or are embarrassed to — ask them.”

1. How does the company make money?
2. Are our customers paying up?
3. What could really hurt — or kill — the company in the next few years?
4. How are we doing relative to our competitors?
5. If the CEO were hit by a bus tomorrow, who could run this company?
6. How are we going to grow?
7. Are we living within our means?
8. How much does the CEO get paid? (Maybe not in an interview!!!)
9. How does bad news get to the top?
10. Do I understand the answers to questions 1 through 9?

Source: Ten Questions Every Board Member Should Ask / Ram Charan and Julie Schlosser / Fortune

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