“Every Hour Matters” Video

by Rob Marchalonis. A simple way to value productivity is by measuring “Inputs and Outputs over TIME”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFw2mnM3RSg How big are the financial opportunities in your business? Consider if you had a “million-dollar annual opportunity” to: Create wealth Reduce debt Grow sales Generate gross margin Reduce expenses Earn net income Etc.) consider the importance of time. Watch this short video…

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Incentive Benchmark Nucor

Productivity leader Nucor rewards leadership for results. Always interesting to follow the performance and corresponding employee incentive compensation for “benchmark incentive” company, Nucor. Yes, they’ve enjoyed some nice tailwinds lately, but still very impressive for an otherwise “gritty commodity business”. Every article about Nucor seems to mention their aggressive variable comp plans and leaders often link their top-tier productivity to…

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Incent Which Employees First?

Six Questions to Help You Pick by Rob Marchalonis Who first? Anyone who has even considered employee incentive compensation plans asks the question, “With which employees should we start?” My strong belief is that incentive plans are best deployed by functional team or “workgroup”. Most small to mid-sized organizations can conveniently group their employees into a relatively few (4 –…

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15 Steps to IncentShare

Creating better employee incentive plans is a process that is made much easier by identifying several key steps to consider and address. We can guide you through this process, or check them out for yourself in IncentShare by Rob Marchalonis, found here in paperback or on Kindle at Amazon. “Five Stars – A must read for leaders! This book unveils…

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Nucor Steel Incentive Role Model

“Every employee of Nucor Steel plants across the world is on incentive pay,” declares Giff Daughtridge, vice president and general manager of Nucor Steel Berkeley, on April 4, 2018 at the Daniel Island Club. “By doing this, the company is able to maintain the highest wages in the steel industry. “From the last person we hired to our CEO, we’re…

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Charlie Munger on Incentives

“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”  Charlie Munger Both Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger extensively use and have strong feelings about incentives.  Every business leader would be wise to learn them. The following are excerpts from a very interesting article on incentives from the Farnum Street website.  Read article here.…

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Value of Senior Leaders?

While some may balk at the compensation of senior leaders, they may be worth every penny given the value they bring to all of their stakeholders.  In public companies, virtually all are compensated in one or more variable ways based on organizational results.  What do you think? Click here for one local example, Lancaster based Fulton Financial: https://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/fulton-financial-ceo-sees-compensation-rise-in/article_8c73c49e-380c-11e8-b505-63ada952f31c.html  

Are CEOs Paid Too Much?

Is the CEO’s compensation a relevant indicator of employee treatment, fairness, or otherwise? Seems to me a better measure is the value the CEO brings to the organization relative to whatever they are paid. I believe employees care more about how THEY can enjoy a reasonable “share of the company’s success” based on their workgroup’s contribution and care less about…

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