Sunday, August 30, 2009

Fashionable compensation plans

It has become fashionable at public companies to describe almost every compensation plan as aligning the interests of management with those of shareholders. In our book, alignment means being a partner in both directions, not just on the upside. Many "alignment" plans flunk this basic test, being artful forms of heads I win, tails you lose.

- Warren Buffett

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