What have we learned?

[Requia ☣]

The biggest shock? Instead of seeing a greater reliance on long-term incentive programs, the Reda report found that changes in these companies' plans made short-term incentive pay a bigger part of the compensation pie. Let me say that again: The plans — despite the calamities that short-term profiteering has visited on our economy — made short-term incentives a bigger component of compensation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/business/16gret.html?_r=1&ref=business