Are you coin operated?

What does it look like when someone is coin operated? This is the person who, any time compensation comes into play, deeply cares how much money they will make. Their focus on their earnings outweighs any other circumstance: what is best for the company, what is best for their own future, how the situation impacts their peers – and they are often oblivious to how it makes their peers see them. And how they view the people around them comes into play too. Yes, sometimes I joke that sales people [...]

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Should CEO’s have to invest in their companies?

If CEOs had to invest in their company's stock with their own money would they make better CEOs?There is a lot of healthy discussion stimulated by Occupy Wall Street going on right now on the income disparity in the US, and more importantly the lack of upward mobility, but the focus of the discussion is sometimes misdirected. As Fortune points out "The much-referenced 1% -- the global elite that controls a disproportionate percentage of global wealth -- is not made up solely of hedge fund managers, investment advisors and traders. [...]

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