{"id":474,"date":"2006-12-01T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=474"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:10:47","slug":"ceo-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/ceo-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Anthony Meaney&#8217;s blog over at Recruiting.com. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruiting.com\/ceo_comp_hysteria_again\" target=\"_blank\">a great riff today<\/a> on an interesting trend &#8211; publicly traded company CEOs leaving to join privately held equity firms. The reason from Anthony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private equity firms are not publicly traded and are not beholden to shareholders, activists, wall street analysts or reporters. Therefore they don&#8217;t have to produce unrealistic linear growth every quarter and can make financial decisions for the long term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am all for CEOs receiving the best pay package they can. It is a free market which means the market will determine the CEOs value to the company. Plus, <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=461\" target=\"_blank\">not all CEOs are crooks<\/a>, though at times that fact is well hidden by the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Anthony Meaney&#8217;s blog over at Recruiting.com. He has a great riff today on an interesting trend &#8211; publicly traded company CEOs leaving to join privately held equity firms. The reason from Anthony: Private equity firms are not publicly traded and are not beholden to shareholders, activists, wall street analysts or reporters. Therefore they don&#8217;t have to produce unrealistic linear growth every quarter and can make financial decisions for the long term. I am all for CEOs receiving the best pay package they can. It is a free market which means the market will determine the CEOs value to the company. Plus, not all CEOs are crooks,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/ceo-trend\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":631,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/the-underpaid-ceo\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":0},"title":"The Underpaid CEO","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I am all for people making as much as they can in their careers which is why I do not understand the emotional attachment to CEO pay. If those CEOs can make that kind of money, more power to them. It doesn't bother me that Bob Nardelli made big money\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1452,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/ceos-are-not-overpaid\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":1},"title":"CEO&#8217;s Are Not Overpaid","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"How is that for a title?\u00a0 Before I get flamed on this topic, let me pull some excerpts from a Human Resource Executive Online article (emphasis mine): A recent study conducted by DolmatConnell & Partners debunks the myth of runaway executive pay. The findings of the study tell a much\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":154,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/tech-company-ceos-on-talent\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":2},"title":"Tech Company CEO&#8217;s on Talent","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From CareerJournal.com - Surveying the Field: Tapping IT Talent: In the survey, 66% of the CEOs said high-quality employees are the biggest contributors to growth, outranking strategy and leadership. Last year, 25% cited high-quality employees as the top growth factor. I emphasized the stats. 25% to 66% is a remarkable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2643,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/10\/one-third-of-ceos-are-worthless-in-sales\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":3},"title":"One Third Of CEO&rsquo;s Are Worthless In Sales","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Those aren\u2019t my words but rather the findings from a Selling Power survey.\u00a0 From the article: A recent Selling Power online survey found that 29 percent of sales leaders judged their CEO useless when it comes to creating a sale. Almost one third and I think I have worked for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":262,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/job-hopping-amongst-executives\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":4},"title":"Job Hopping Amongst Executives","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Job hopping gets much attention from companies when they are in hiring mode and rightly so. This business article provides some interesting statistics in regards to upper-level management trends. 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