What the NFL Can Teach CEOs: Management Guru

Absolutely. We have CEO"s that will search the world to find a worker that will make textiles for a $1 a day. If that worker happens to be a child in eastern Asia then so be it. That same CEO then turns to their board and demands to be paid in the millions. The boards oblige because their interests are aligned with the CEO, not the shareholders. We need a way to hold the boards accountable. If companies like P&G start doing this, others will follow. Henry Ford started a revolution of prosperity in this country by setting wages at a rate that allowed his workers to become his customers. We need a company that will start a revolution of CEO and board accountability.

How about applying it to congress and the senate too!

This is right on the money. The reason why we are in decline here is the non-alignment to long-term goals. By forcing and delaying the gratification, CEOs and management will focus on strategies that offer long term growth as opposed to quick short term returns. This is WAY OVERDUE.

Yeah, like the greedy CEO's in America will go for that idea.

That sounds like common sense, no way greedy CEO's and Boards will go for it without stockholders demanding it.

yea ceos should learn from the nfl.....aslong as their not like the lions in 09

Martin's point is that trading secondary market stocks is basically the same as betting. So compensating CEO's with stock options is like letting a player bet on their own game. Instead he argues for compensation that would payout over a much longer term. This makes so much sense that it will be implemented.

The NFL is the biggest blotted organization on the planet. They can't face the prospect of half full stadiums which is what going to happen in a double dip and a lost fan base due to a product that has lost it continuity and flow due to commercial interruptions.

Its a classic ponzi about to implode and they won't see it comming because they have detached themselves from football fans in favor of the media echo chamber. .

The NFL is great if your a star ! If you are a lineman its a job which could leave you disabled by 35. Lets see some stats on the average NFL linemen life expectancy. Bet you 65 is about average.

There is also the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules

Idealistic idea. Chances of success? 0%. zip, nada. There is a noticeable lack of altruistic minds in corporate boardrooms or Wall Street.

If a CEO is invested in his company wouldn't he want it to succeed? and aren't there laws in place to protect against insider trading? Is a CEO taking the risk of spending his life in jail for making money on insider trading any different than the risk to return of a very volatile stock? I do not agree that CEOs should invest on insider information but it is their choice to make that risky decision.

With Congress about to outdo teens and preteens in social media gaffes (sexting), who do you think will have enough sense to implement this? I also think that workers ought to have residuals on patents issued and creativity. Think of the poor engineers and Phs Ds that worked for Tech and Biotech? if there was a rule that says 10% of profits from these ventures go to line workers, then everybody who had a part in the success gets something, we get a society that is better off. There ought to be some benefit to Americans over the Singapore and China engineers who reap the benefits of manufacturing American innovations while American engineers are sidelined by the Fioorinas (HP) through outsourcing and she makes out like a bandit.

Look at who made out like a bandit at Groupon, LinkedIn and facebook? Investment houses! The workers, progammers, enginers, the universities and you and I who make these things better get nothing. Sure you and I are not entiteld to anything, but line workers at these companies ought to get say, 20% of the windfall. In Hollywoood if you are part of a movie, you get a check for ever, as long as moviee makes money. the same should be happening to the scientist who worked on Viagra, or iPhones, etc.

Greed will never let anything like this happen.

I sent the so-called Breakout crew this e-mail:

Are you kidding? Can���t you recognize when an academician is plugging any nonsense he can think of because his university is pressuring him to publish! Were you simply using NFL in your headline to attract ad-supported views?

Please don���t tell me that you are unable to recognize the difference between an athlete gambling on the outcome of his own games and a CEO investing I his own company. If you are unable to recognize the distinction, I will hound the heck out of Yahoo! Upper management to either terminate this Breakout feature in its entirety, or at least replace the people who are running it now due to a scandalous lack of financial expertise.

You owe the Yahoo! Community an apology.

just remember who the
boss is.

Executive Compensation is out of control. Most are professional administrators not strategic planners. Executives sit on Compensation Committee on Board of Directors, do you think they will vote to reduce Compensation. Majority Shareholders are Institutional Investors, so little control there. Put some creditors on the board.

Go back to old rule between highest paid nonexec position and Exec. No vesting (like most employees) for at least 5 years.

Pro sports is a rich man's game where ego trumps business sense. It is all about egos.

The last I saw, the NFL was about to cancel an entire season due to the actions of the CEO's of the teams. This is some doo-doo head academic's idea of a successful operation? Or is it just an economist's (read intellectually challenged quasi-psuedo scholar) attempt to create a best seller and rake in some cash?

Always trade on NEEDS not WANTS!!!