8 Questions about Your Value-Creation Strategy

Companies collect and analyze a great deal of information in order to estimate their value-creation potential. But in our experience, that information doesn’t always help them answer the most important questions when it comes to creating a detailed value-creation strategy. Below are eight questions that we believe should inform every company’s strategy to create value. If you don’t know the answers to these questions, you … [ Read more ]

10 Questions About Executive Compensation That Every Company Should Know How to Answer

  1. What are the implications of our business strategy and our approach to value creation for our executive compensation system? What behaviors are we trying to motivate? Does the system support our strategy? Does it encourage our executives to act like owners?
  2. Is the overall pay package appropriately balanced? Between fixed pay and variable pay? Between short-term-variable and long-term-variable pay? For each level of the

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