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The Supreme Guide to Sales Compensation in 2023 (With Plan Examples) 

AIHR

HR tip To delve deeper into designing sales compensation plans and enhance your knowledge in compensation and benefits management, explore AIHR’s Compensation & Benefits Certificate Program. It offers valuable insights, practical tools, and best practices to design and implement successful plans.

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Boards Aren’t as Global as Their Businesses

Harvard Business Review

Neither Utilities nor Telecommunications are represented in the chart below because all but a few companies in those sectors have no non-domestic revenue. Technology, with a gap of 44%, was the outlier—not because the global presence in the boardroom is so low, but because the percentage of revenue from international sources is so high.

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Corporate China's Succession Struggles

Harvard Business Review

Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker. Clearly, Chinese executives have no choice but to grow up quickly and develop effective "succession plans with Chinese characteristics.".

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The Rise of the Not-So-Experienced CEO

Harvard Business Review

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. A fast-track CEO succession should be the product of a deliberate strategy, not of desperation.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

Because succession planning is one of the most important and consequential functions tasked to any board, we wanted to learn more about what boards were doing. Given the boards'' responsibility for succession planning, one would expect them to give the subject plenty of time and consideration. Succession planning'

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Get Ready for the New Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry. When they created a long-range plan to roll-up the applications, they realized that many of the experts — the only ones who knew the code — were going to retire before the planned integration dates.