Whoever called them golden handcuffs wasn't joking. What do you regret most about your career? I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson's School for Design , and a particularly attentive front-row audience member kicked off question time with the curliest one of the day. I answered quickly with the hope of getting back on target. MORE

Posted in Leadership Development [link] “Golden handcuffs” is a phrase used to describe a system of financial incentives designed to keep key employees from leaving a company. If you are wearing them, however, they likely feel a lot more like a safety and security net, than like restraints. Of course, if you love what you do and where you work it could [.] MORE

On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome! ← To be or not to be: can authenticity at work limit your career options? Leadership and Sustainability: voice your opinion → Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. MORE

This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” ” It is a system that is different from the more common stock option arrangement, which is often termed the “golden handcuff.” Today, Huawei is the only Chinese company – out of the 91 mainland Chinese companies listed on the Fortune Global 500 list – earning more revenue abroad than in China. MORE

When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs. The challenge is to cast off the handcuffs while keeping the gold. Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MORE

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. This is my own Big Picture full-scope analysis of the Enron debacle. It far transcends financial analysis made by other people.I have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. MORE

Premium Talent Management artificial employment restraints artificial employment retainers business leadership business management employee retention golden handcuffs nathan ives strategydriven talent managementEvery manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. MORE

Golden parachutes: This is an agreement between the companies and the key professionals. Golden handcuffs: This is an arrangement between the organizations and their primary executives wherein the executives are offered supplemental retirement benefits on fulfilling certain conditions, like being associated with the company until a particular age. Golden handcuffs are specially designed to encourage long-term efficient relationships with the employees. MORE