Companies need to state clearly what they are tying to achieve with their compensation policy, what targets executives are expected to meet and what the rewards will be for hitting those targets.
Governor George Pataki got the charter schools bill through the New York legislature by tying it to a big pay increase that state lawmakers badly wanted.
By tying funding to individual student outcomes, the state would in essence make sure that individual programs did what was best for students, even if that was on occasion counter to conventional wisdom.