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Equity Plans in Small & Medium Enterprises

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

As business owners seek better ways to attract , retain and motivate key employees to lock in performance and build wealth, we find they often do not look at equity as a means to manage this – they have been long condiitoned to use income as the means to manage performance – pay increases, bonuses and overtime are the most common tools of employee performance management.
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Employee Equity & Incentives – A Solution to Funding?

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

A specific area of concern and interest is the utilisation of employee share plans and other equity plans to assist in funding and implementing succession. Australia lags behind both Europe and the US in the uptake of employee equity schemes (in all forms). Anecdotal evidence suggests this may be a substantial stimulus for implementing business succession planning and a substantial benefit to employer and employee alike. (more…)

People, People, People

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

In 1992 Bill Gates quoted in Forbes magazine “Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company. “What separates Microsoft from other companies is not its product, but its people. (more…)