Reuters reports today that CEO compensation has changed to more long-term options tied to stock performance. MSN ran it as “Average CEO now makes $10.7 million: Pay packages 5% fatter in 2004, but corporate leaders are working harder for their stock incentives, survey finds“. For this to be Requisite, read it in light of Mark Van Clieaf’s work on CEO …
When You Are Too Big For Your Job
When you are a high-potential, you grow at a steeper trajectory than most people do. They advise you to do this and do that, but it doesn’t work. And it fails simply because you have grown beyond the size of the work.
Support for Human Capability Developmental Model
From The First Idea: Through a field study, we have been able to show that the early capacities are mastered for the first time (and then continue to be further developed) during specific, predicted time intervals. [pp. 54] No, I haven’t chased down the study yet and, no, I haven’t determined what these time periods are. I’m not done reading …
Emotions as the Foundation of Intellect
‘…a baby first learns “causality” … through the exchange of emotional signals (I smile and you smile back).’ [pp. 51]
Requisite Organization Lens On Software Development vs Maintenance
Some time ago, Gordon had an interesting comment about a couple of posts (see “Getting Work Done at the Right Level” and “Ready, Fire, Aim”: Intuition, Analysis and Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge). I wanted to finally get around to addressing some of his points. I’m reading this just after reading your “Ready, Fire, Aim…” post, and just wondering “how do …
“Safer Coin Tosses Point to Better Way for Enemies to Swap Messages”
I just thought that this was funny. I have no idea what they’re talking about. Okay, I have some idea but not much of one. QUANTUM COMPUTING: Safer Coin Tosses Point to Better Way for Enemies to Swap Messagesby Charles Seife In an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, physicists describe an experiment in which a fair coin flip is …
Grasso Grilling in NYSE External Report
It looks like Dick Grasso won no friends in the new NYSE management. Grasso had worked for the exchange for years before getting the boot when someone leaked that he had been paid US$140M in 2003. The exchange asked Winston & Strawn to investigate the matter and report. You can hear the directors screaming, “We’re innocent! We didn’t know! We …
“Ready, Fire, Aim”: Intuition, Analysis and Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge
By investigating the solutions as you are trying to determine the problem, you get farther ahead. If you knew what they problem was, it wouldn’t be much of a problem: you’d just go ahead and fix it. Most of what we do we don’t truly understand what will work or why. We move around by intuition, using analysis to then determine whether we’re on the right track or how to sharpen our focus.
Security Lights Increase Vandalism
Surely keeping the lights on reduces vandalism, right? If you think that I can see you, then you are less likely to commit a crime. Not so fast, according to one commenter at Half Bakery. ldischler pointed out that security lighting actually increases vandalism. That’s a bold claim but it may be right. And the underlying principle may be vital …
Comics Editors and Requisite Organization and Software Development
Comics provides a great illustration of Jaques’s theories of work in clear practice.