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CMO Employment Contract Tips to Protect You and Your Job
This post was published in Ivy Exec on September 30, 2021. Unlike CEOs and CFOs, not every company has a Chief Marketing Officer, and not every CMO has the same responsibilities, span of control, decision rights, and position in the reporting structure. Therefore, should you be offered a CMO position, it is important to understand […]
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Phantom Stock as Executive Compensation for Family Businesses
This article was published in Ivy Exec in September, 2021. Whether you are a C-level executive, a VP or senior executive, or even a director rising in the company, your executive compensation package should always have two components. The first component is your cash compensation – fixed: your base salary; and variable: your executive bonus based on performance. […]
Read moreDuty of “Good Faith and Fair Dealing” Ensures Your Executive Compensation is not Taken Away from You
This article was published in CEO World on September 2, 2021. Have you been cheated out of a benefit you earned on the job? Was your job terminated for no good reason when you were on the eve of making a big score? Do you think you were fired just so the company could keep the money or […]
Read moreExecutive Stock Options, Restricted Shares and Restricted Stock Units – What’s Best for You
This article was published in Ivy Exec on August 3, 2021. For most CEOs, C-suite and senior executives, and even for many directors and mid-level executives, a major part of executive compensation negotiations concerns the level, tax structuring and terms of equity compensation. This article discusses key things to look for in your equity package, among the four […]
Read morePivoting for Startups: Why, When and How
By Robert A. Adelson. This article was published in The CEO Refresher on February 10, 2021. For the founder and entrepreneur launching a startup company, as well as the CEO and officers in a startup or early stage company, it is important to understand the market for your products or services, the needs of your […]
Read moreUsing Career Advancement Covenants to Safeguard Non-Financial Executive Pay
This article was published in CEO World on May 26, 2021. Suppose you have gone as far as you can in your present company and you are on the lookout for a more challenging executive role. An executive job offer came along and you are tempted by the opportunity, but you are in two minds because the salary […]
Read moreDon’t Let Disparagement or Defamation Blackball Your Executive Career Prospects
By Robert A. Adelson. This article was published in CEO World Magazine on April 27, 2021. Generally, executive employment separations negotiations focus on how much severance will be paid. After all, with employment termination, the executive will be between positions. This could be a long time or short time, but that gap in employment can mean economic hardship […]
Read moreDon’t Let Misalignment in Executive Compensation Create Your Own “Black Sox Scandal”
This article was published in CEO World on March 31, 2021. In many companies, executive compensation is determined or negotiated according to an established compensation structure that is derived from their talent acquisition and retention strategy which in turn is driven by their business goals. Typically, a company would identify key growth indicators and ensure that each key […]
Read moreNegotiating a Custom CEO or C-level Executive Compensation Package
This article was publish in CEO World magazine on November 5, 2020. I am often asked – what starting salary, what bonus, what equity amount should I seek in my CEO or C-level executive compensation package? There are companies that do executive compensation surveys and recruiters often have access to those statistics. But what if you […]
Read moreWorking Remotely as a C-level Executive – Opportunities and Considerations
This article was publish in CEO World magazine on October 2, 2020. Over the past decade, more and more business has been conducted remotely and that trend has only increased with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. While the pandemic has done much harm to many businesses and the careers of CEOs and C-level executives in those […]
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