A good question.  What motivates employees at one point in their life may differ from other points in their lives.

Get a boss who is a young stud – a drinker , a womanizer , one who looks to screw any potential female ( or who knows what ) no matter that she may be a major client’s daughter or whatever and all you will get are financial rewards as the only measure of incentive.  Worse yet explain , or try to explain to these types that there are alternatives , and the concept of flexibility – and this may well , or always be regarded as a threat to their management status or that you are a poor employee.  “I think that you don’t like money”  was the refrain barked out to a new young father who tried to escape the world’s stupidest project dreamed up while the boss was corked on a Friday afternoon.

The comedy was that the boss had been set up by the employee at a client’s office to keep him busy and out of trouble .

One of the influential clients at hand at the spectacle remarked “He sure thinks a lot of himself”

Another pointed out “Pour a couple of drinks ( many in this case , far too many) , and watch what happens.

What a bunch of morons !

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“Salary has become such a minuscule component of CEO compensation that it is now largely irrelevant,” said J. Richard Finlay, founder of the Centre for Corporate & Public Governance.

Of the 386 Standard & Poor’s 500 CEOs whose companies reported under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s expanded disclosure requirements this year, salary accounted for only 9.5 percent of total pay. For the 11 CEOs in the group who earned more than $30 million, salary was just 2.7 percent of total pay.

In the group, the CEOs with the smallest salaries were:

_ Terry Considine, chairman, president and CEO of Apartment Investment & Management. He reported a salary of zero, although footnotes in the company’s proxy statement show that he received stock options valued at $600,000 as his base salary. Considine’s total pay, as calculated by the AP, was $4.8 million in 2006.

_ Richard D. Fairbank, president and CEO of Capital One Financial Corp., also had zero salary, as well as no bonus. But he was awarded $18 million worth of stock options.

Since 1997, Fairbank has been paid almost entirely in stock and options, which are pegged to Capital One’s long-term performance. The company’s proxy said the board’s compensation committee believes this is “the mechanism that most aligns the CEO’s financial rewards to the value he delivers to stockholders.”

Fairbank has 5.9 million unexercised options, as well as unearned shares and options that have not vested that the company values at $27.3 million.

_ James Rogers, president and CEO of Duke Energy Corp., received no salary in 2006. But like Fairbank, he receives most of his compensation in stock and options. His total pay for 2006 was $27.5 million.

_ Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc., took home exactly $1 in salary. And his overall compensation totaled $557,466, a fraction of the $71.7 million granted last year to competitor Yahoo Inc. CEO Terry Semel, the No. 1 executive on the AP pay list.

Almost all of Schmidt’s package covered the cost of $532,755 for personal security. Schmidt, along with Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has refused to take anything more than a token paycheck for the past three years to promote an egalitarian spirit at the company.

But all three own handsome stock stakes in the company. Schmidt, 52, owns 10.7 million shares currently worth $5.5 billion.

Another $1-a-year CEO is Apple’s Steve Jobs, who’s been treading water at that level for the last three years. But Jobs, 52, also owns more than 5.4 million Apple shares that are now worth more than $660 million.

Another $1-a-year CEO is Apple’s Steve Jobs, who’s been treading water at that level for the last three years. But Jobs, 52, also owns more than 5.4 million Apple shares that are now worth more than $660 million.

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