Institute for the Study of Pointless Metrics

leadership·Published 2024-03

All-Hands Meeting Cadence Increase and Subsequent Executive Exit Package Size: A Positive Association

Principal investigator: Dean Beaumont Kessler, Dean of the Practitioner Program.

036912150350550750950Increase in all-hands meetings per quarter vs. prior year (count delta)Executive exit package value (nearest $50k) ($000s)r = 0.77p < 0.001n = 94
Figure 1. Increase in all-hands meetings per quarter vs. prior year versus Executive exit package value (nearest $50k). n = 94.
Organizations that increase their all-hands meeting frequency in a given quarter tend to offer materially larger executive exit packages in the following two quarters.

Methodology

Ninety-four organizations that had experienced a named executive departure and publicly disclosed exit compensation terms in the period 2020 through 2024 were identified from SEC filings, press disclosures, and, in seven cases, from reporting by a financial news outlet that the Institute partnered with under a non-disclosure agreement. All-hands meeting frequency was reconstructed from employee recollections solicited via a voluntary survey posted to professional networks; the accuracy of recollected meeting frequency was not independently verified.

Funding disclosure: Funded by the Institute's Executive Transitions Research Fund, established through a gift from an executive who declined to characterize their own departure.

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Full citation

Kessler, B. (2024). All-Hands Meeting Cadence Increase and Subsequent Executive Exit Package Size: A Positive Association. Institute for the Study of Pointless Metrics. r = 0.77, p < 0.001, n = 94.

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