The modern public corporation has failed to aligned shareholder value with executive compensation. However, renowned business strategist Roger L. Martin is not convinced that DAOs are the answer.
Roger L. Martin is one of the world’s foremost business strategists, serving as an advisor to the CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies including Procter & Gamble and Ford. In this interview we discuss the pitfalls with modern corporate governance and how things have become exacerbated by the rise of passive investing, proxy services and the pandemic-driven stock market boom.
We also touch on the growing trend of major technology firms, such as Google, Facebook and even Coinbase, concentrating voting power in the hands of executives. Finally, we explore what all this means for the growth of DAOs and token prices during this period of crypto development. to get first access to breaking news, trading signals, exclusive interviews, and much more.
It’s an article of faith that the widely held publicly traded company is constructively governable. And of course there is this notion that stock-based compensation will align the interests of management and shareholders and I’ve written extensively about that, but it actually does the opposite. Everybody thinks the stock price is somehow a real thing that really reflects the company and its operations, and they're often baffled when earnings are up 20% and the stock goes down.