Following my report on Day One of the 17th annual Compensation & Benefits Forum from IIRME in Dubai, I am happy to share, today, my notes from the second day of this great conference. John Ohrnberger from ADIA opened with a general presentation on points to consider when thinking about Executive Compensation. It’s important to…
A useful reference matrix on equity compensation
In this edition of Sunday Skills, I want to lead you to a great synthetic document created by Performensation, a consulting company which “provides customized performance based compensation solutions to organizations of all sizes in the Americas and Europe”. Performensation is led by Dan Walter, an expert on executive / equity compensation who is also…
Debrief on the 16th IIRME Compensation & Benefits Forum – Day Two
In my last post I covered Day One of the 16th Annual Compensation & Benefits Forum organised by IIRME in Dubai. It’s time to cover the second day of the conference, which was just as good as Day One. The day started with Jonathan Budden from Microsoft who detailed what makes a company a Great…
The Netflix Employee Value Proposition
When I was preparing for my previous post on Netflix, my attention was drawn to a small part of Reed Hastings’ interview. He said : “We care about great work. This requires thoughtful, mature high-performance employees.” (emphasis is mine). So I went on a path of discovery to try and find more information about the…
Don’t like handcuffs ? Join Netflix !
Reed Hastings is the co-founder and CEO of Netflix, which provides live streaming TV and video shows from the internet on a monthly subscription basis in the USA, Canada, UK and Ireland. A great concept and one that led to the ultimate doom of the local video/DVD rental business (think Blockbusters). In How to set…