Do you have an incentive, or a disincentive?
Executive incentives in listed companies are meant to align management with shareholders, but after years of falling share prices many are now so far out of reach they have become disincentives. Why it is worth recutting them, and having that conversation with shareholders.
Ben Williamson
5 December 2024 · 3 min read
At recent events, something has been coming up repeatedly: management incentives. They are super important, for many reasons, and many are currently broken and need fixing.
Over the last few weeks I have had the same conversation many times: "my incentives are broken."
Let's be real for a second. Being listed is hard and people do these roles because they can earn a lot more money in upside if things go right.
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