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(A) The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How to Stop It
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN
- 9780735212398
- Book Title
- Ceo Pay Machine : How It Trashes America and How to Stop It
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topic
- Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, General, Corporate Finance / General
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives--and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever before--depending on the method of calculation, CEOs get paid between 300 and 700 times more than the average worker. Such outsized pay is a relatively recent phenomenon, but despite all the outrage, few detractors truly understand the numerous factors that have contributed to the dizzying upward spiral in CEO compensation. Steven Clifford, a former CEO who has also served on many corporate boards, has a name for these procedures and practices-- "The CEO Pay Machine." The CEO Pay Machine is Clifford's thorough and shocking explanation of the 'machine'--how it works, how its parts interact, and how every step pushes CEO pay to higher levels. As Clifford sees it, the payment structure for CEOs begins with shared delusions that reinforce one other: Once this groupthink is accepted as corporate dogma, it becomes infinitely harder to see any decision as potentially irrational or dysfunctional. Yet, as Clifford notes, the Pay Machine has caused immeasurable harm to companies, shareholders, economic growth, and democracy itself. He uses real-life examples of the top four CEOs named the highest paid in 2011 through 2014. Clifford examines how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country's richest executives; what's more, Clifford argues, each of those companies could have paid their CEOs 90 percent less and performed just as well. Witty and infuriating, The CEO Pay Machine is a thorough and incisive critique of an economic issue that affects all American workers.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0735212392
ISBN-13
9780735212398
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228694203
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ceo Pay Machine : How It Trashes America and How to Stop It
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, General, Corporate Finance / General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hd4965.5.U6c55 2017
Reviews
"As Clifford shows with clarity and wit, using plentiful real-world examples, the [CEO Pay] Machine has mechanically and inexorably made CEO pay escalation a mathematical certainty...Passionate, provocative, and eye-opening, The CEO Pay Machine offers a clear and informed explanation of one of the most controversial economic and ethical issues of our time, which is sure to prompt renewed debate about a topic currently at the forefront of the national conversation." --Dylan Schleicher, "Editor's Choice", 1800CEORead/In the Books "Clifford's book is enlivened by equal doses of whimsy and scorching rhetoric. But its main task is to pry apart the mechanisms by which companies enable CEOs to collect vast sums with little downside risk." --Seattle Times "[Clifford] imagines a better future--one in which compensation packages would be simplified, CEO pay would be downsized, and incentives would be properly geared toward companies' long-term success...The issue of executive pay is sometimes dismissed with the argument that in a big corporation a few million more or less doesn't matter. But ...[distorted incentives do matter. And] as we saw in November, Americans are angry and have stopped trusting the system. [Licensed larceny in the corner office helped elect a populist demagogue to the White House]. One step to winning back trust would be to insist that CEOs be treated like other mortals." -- Fortune "A former CEO of two corporations shatters the myths and explains the stupidity regarding astronomical salaries at the top of the business world...a well thought-out, clearly written expos." --Kirkus Reviews "An englightening and refreshingly candid look at the contentious topic of chief executive compensation." --Publishers Weekly , "As Clifford shows with clarity and wit, using plentiful real-world examples, the [CEO Pay] Machine has mechanically and inexorably made CEO pay escalation a mathematical certainty...Passionate, provocative, and eye-opening, The CEO Pay Machine offers a clear and informed explanation of one of the most controversial economic and ethical issues of our time, which is sure to prompt renewed debate about a topic currently at the forefront of the national conversation." --Dylan Schleicher, "Editor's Choice", 1800CEORead/In the Books "Clifford's book is enlivened by equal doses of whimsy and scorching rhetoric. But its main task is to pry apart the mechanisms by which companies enable CEOs to collect vast sums with little downside risk." --Seattle Times "[Clifford] imagines a better future--one in which compensation packages would be simplified, CEO pay would be downsized, and incentives would be properly geared toward companies' long-term success...The issue of executive pay is sometimes dismissed with the argument that in a big corporation a few million more or less doesn't matter. But ...[distorted incentives do matter. And] as we saw in November, Americans are angry and have stopped trusting the system. [Licensed larceny in the corner office helped elect a populist demagogue to the White House]. One step to winning back trust would be to insist that CEOs be treated like other mortals." -- Fortune "How did CEO pay in the U.S. become so untethered to the wages of average workers and what can be done to bring it back in line, if indeed doing so would be in the best interests of the companies themselves and the economy as a whole? Steven Clifford, formerly CEO of King Broadcasting Company and National Mobile Television and a director of 13 companies, tackles these questions with wit and compelling logic in The CEO Pay Machine." --Investing.com "A former CEO of two corporations shatters the myths and explains the stupidity regarding astronomical salaries at the top of the business world...a well thought-out, clearly written expos." --Kirkus Reviews "An englightening and refreshingly candid look at the contentious topic of chief executive compensation." --Publishers Weekly , "[Clifford] imagines a better future--one in which compensation packages would be simplified, CEO pay would be downsized, and incentives would be properly geared toward companies' long-term success...The issue of executive pay is sometimes dismissed with the argument that in a big corporation a few million more or less doesn't matter. But ...[distorted incentives do matter. And] as we saw in November, Americans are angry and have stopped trusting the system. [Licensed larceny in the corner office helped elect a populist demagogue to the White House]. One step to winning back trust would be to insist that CEOs be treated like other mortals." -- Fortune "A former CEO of two corporations shatters the myths and explains the stupidity regarding astronomical salaries at the top of the business world...a well thought-out, clearly written expos." --Kirkus Reviews "An englightening and refreshingly candid look at the contentious topic of chief executive compensation." --Publishers Weekly , "So what happened in America that so much is now lavished on the executive class? And does it matter? To the second question Steven Clifford, a former chief executive at King Broadcasting and now the author of "The CEO Pay Machine," responds with an emphatic "yes." The outsize income, he thinks, feeds inequality and mistrust in our democracy. In response to the first question he argues that a system of compensation has emerged over the past four decades that rewards mediocre executives by stiffing shareholders, employees and society at large." --The Wall Street Journal "As Clifford shows with clarity and wit, using plentiful real-world examples, the [CEO Pay] Machine has mechanically and inexorably made CEO pay escalation a mathematical certainty...Passionate, provocative, and eye-opening, The CEO Pay Machine offers a clear and informed explanation of one of the most controversial economic and ethical issues of our time, which is sure to prompt renewed debate about a topic currently at the forefront of the national conversation." --800CEORead/In the Books "Clifford's book is enlivened by equal doses of whimsy and scorching rhetoric. But its main task is to pry apart the mechanisms by which companies enable CEOs to collect vast sums with little downside risk." --Seattle Times "[Clifford] imagines a better future--one in which compensation packages would be simplified, CEO pay would be downsized, and incentives would be properly geared toward companies' long-term success...The issue of executive pay is sometimes dismissed with the argument that in a big corporation a few million more or less doesn't matter. But ...[distorted incentives do matter. And] as we saw in November, Americans are angry and have stopped trusting the system. [Licensed larceny in the corner office helped elect a populist demagogue to the White House]. One step to winning back trust would be to insist that CEOs be treated like other mortals." -- Fortune "A former CEO of two corporations shatters the myths and explains the stupidity regarding astronomical salaries at the top of the business world...a well thought-out, clearly written exposé." --Kirkus Reviews "An englightening and refreshingly candid look at the contentious topic of chief executive compensation." --Publishers Weekly, "A former CEO of two corporations shatters the myths and explains the stupidity regarding astronomical salaries at the top of the business world...a well thought-out, clearly written expos." --Kirkus Reviews "An englightening and refreshingly candid look at the contentious topic of chief executive compensation." --Publishers Weekly
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-052097
Dewey Decimal
331.281658400973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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