Posts tagged pay
Beyond the Day Rate: A Working Map of Fractional Fee Models

The pricing essays on this blog have argued, repeatedly, that pricing yourself is the hardest conversation in this work. They are right. But the difficulty is partly that we keep treating pricing as a single number rather than a small, structured menu.

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You Get What You Pay For

When it comes to leadership, there’s no room for compromise. The stakes are too high, and the potential cost of missteps is far greater than the upfront savings of hiring cheap talent.

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It’s not just money. This is what’s still driving the Great Resignation

It is rather staggering that nearly 69 million people quit their jobs in America last year—and the common assumption is that everyone who resigned found a new employer willing to give them a meaningful bump in pay.

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The Greatest Sales Compensation Plan Ever*

* Just kidding, there is no such thing. The many, often conflicting goals a sales compensation plan is meant to achieve, in addition to the huge variety of products, services, and businesses, make it impossible to have one plan that is “the greatest.”

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The Ultimate Guide to Fee Models for Fractional Executives

Fee models for fractional executives have an art and a science, a balance between multiple factors, and an element of “as-high-or-as-low-as-desperation-takes-you” to it. And that is not too different from the permanent job market.

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