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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by jimbokun on Friday September 30, 2016 @01:15PM (#12613750)
"Technically, any employee is like that too, except that when the position holds so much scrutiny, the ROI is analysed in greater depth."

The point of the article is this flatly false. Almost all of the "ROI" attributed to executive skill is actually due to luck.

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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by athenot on Friday September 30, 2016 @01:31PM (#12613856)
I guess the point is that it is the ROI calculations that don't differentiate between the skill or the market conditions.
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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by cmdrfred on Friday September 30, 2016 @01:40PM (#12613929)
Luck is a bad term here, Luck to me seems to imply something that surrounds the person. A force of nature. This is straight up random chance.
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