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To: GVTucker who wrote (47701)	2/1/2001 10:38:21 AM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

GV, That excerpt appears to be targeted at "pay" not incentive options. Nonetheless the past few years (I'm assuming this is when the study was done) is not a good indicator since the plethora of dot.com's likely scewed the data. In that instance there were many exec's and line workers that were making millions on options while the company was not executing.... for that matter the same can be said of investors - making money on companies that had no profits. So, I don't think the study (having not read it of course) can do justice to the issue. Bottom line is that options are worthless unless the company executes... if they do everyone wins... if they don't no one wins. To take the analogy of the race car driver... maybe he's just naturally good... so does that mean that he shouldn't enjoy the windfall from his success? Options are a way to share a companies success with their employee's. It's really quite simple. No success - no sharing. OG