[ledauphin]

stock grants mean you're paid for the value your company _has_, not the value _you_ provide to your company.

For the vast majority of leaders, their input into the company's overall performance is vanishingly small.

[falcolas]

The job of leadership is to make the company succeed. The value of the company is a simple (but effective) "Key Result" metric that's used to evaluate how well they're doing their job (no matter how many others are also contributing).