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Micheal Jordon created an immense amount of revenue for the team, club, city and sport (NBA). I would have to believe that if one broke down his salary as a percentage contribution to the "NBA Economy" he is actually getting paid far less than the journey man player. Look at old golden balls he can triple a clubs revenue just by joining the team. Look at my old CEO everyone screamed when he took home a 55mil salary but he had just cut 1 Bil from the bottom line. |
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Jordan got the ball more because he was somewhat more talented. That skewed his visibility and stats and made him a rockstar. His was paid as much or more for his celebrity than what his skill actually contributed. Michael Jordan actually at least had some talent.
I don’t see the talent in many CEOs. Too many stories like the Enron or Kmart CEO who faced charges of corporate looting.
I have trouble with a rockstar mentality applied to CEOs because its driven partly by stock speculation. But it isn’t just the stockholders because their salaries are high and stay high even when the company is doing bad unless there is a major uproar.
I didn’t understand this until I learned that many CEOs were board members for other companies. A mapping of board members and CEOs for the fortune 500 looks like a schematic of company’s computer network from all the ’incest’. In many cases, they are literally giving each other raises. |
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A mapping of board members and CEOs for the fortune 500 looks like a schematic of company’s computer network from all the ’incest’. In many cases, they are literally giving each other raises. Is there any evidence that this phenomenon is greater today than it was 50 years ago? The only thing I can think of is that Sarbanes-Oxley requires a ?majority? of outsiders on a company’s board, but that (as with many of government’s "good intentions) was supposed to make things better by getting rid of insider-dominated boards. |
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Stock options have disguised the true cost of compensation I once heard (but never heard it repeated) that during the 90’s, there was the biggest transfer of equity in the history of man. This transfer was all based on stock options. Stockholders, for the most part, never realized that their holdings were being devalued by the mass transfer of equity to management via stock options.
The reason for the increased use of stock options can be traced back to the Clinton "millionaire’s tax", a tax that put a surcharge on anything made by "company CEOs" over $1 million (Hollywood and sports figures were exempt, talk about special interests). |
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CEO probably work 120 hours a week, never see their families and have huge stress trying to manage 10,000 employees in 10 countries. Oh, and you’re responsible for everything.
I doubt this is a job that really a lot of people want. And of course those hiring CEOs won’t give you a shot unless you have some serious experience, so there could be a funnel effect where they can only choose from the top of the pyramid. |
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As is the case in professional sports, more overall wealth and greater competition for that wealth produces a sort of salary/talent attenuation
Don’t you mean amplification? Attenuation is the reduction of intensity (amplitude) of a wave passes through a medium. You want to say the salary to talent ratio is getting larger rather than smaller, right? |
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Kolohe - Perhaps he’s thinking in terms of the top of a pyramid, rather than a wave. |
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Yep, Bryan is right. The pyramid starts short and fat, but grows taller, longer, more attenuated. Unlike a pyramid, though, it doesn’t necessarily progress evenly to the top. |
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Jon Henke
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