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Acknowledgments

F irst and foremost, I wish to thank several people without whom this book would
never have happened: my editor, Mary Glenn, for her faith in me from the very
beginning and her helpful assistance all along the way; Cathy Catalano and
Sandra Davidov, who, with their word processing skills, converted my illegible
scribblings into an electronic manuscript; John Woods and his team at CWL Publishing
Enterprises for formatting the first edition; and Richard Rothschild and his team at Print
Matters, who included all changes in this edition.
A special thank you to the following for their thoughtful comments and suggestions:
Larry Bickford (SEC), Bob Birdsell (life insurance) Webb Bassick, Peter Chingos and Jim
Reda (long-term incentives), Joseph Few (deferred compensation), Pat Krajnak (employee
benefits), and Wally Nichols (performance management). Thanks also go to the following for
input on the history of executive compensation: Larry Bickford, Lou Cheek, Peter Chingos,
Bud Crystal, Mike Davis, Ed Goff, Tim Haigh, Vic Iannuzzi, Les Jackson, Ira Kay, Jim
Kuhns, Greg Lau, Fred Meuter, Pearl Meyer, Wally Nichols, Alan Ritchie, Sandra Sussman,
Nat Winstanley, and Gordon Wolf.
And thank you also to John England for encouraging me to do the first edition of this
book by updating and expanding upon my first book on executive compensation, Executive
Compensation: A Total Pay Perspective (McGraw-Hill, 1982).
Several people were very helpful to me early in my career, one that resulted in a strong
passion for the field of compensation. They include the late Professor Alton Johnson, who
got me interested in the field of compensation while at the University of Wisconsin; the late
Bill Stuart, who hired me at Pfizer and lived the values of business partner and employee
champion; the late Don Lum, who followed Stuart as Vice President, Personnel, and was my
boss and big supporter while there; Chairman and CEO Ed Pratt, who gave me the top HR
job at Pfizer (the third in the company’s history) and made it enjoyable while demanding; and
Bill Steere, who continued to make my job challenging and very rewarding before retiring.
Thank you all!
And while Brucell and other proper names in the book are fictitious, some bear a striking
similarity to members of my family.

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