For an organization, compensation is best structured to reward employees for their efforts. For the executive team though, organizations should focus on alignment of its compensation plans with the performance of the organization and its executives, individually.
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We typically distribute this report at the time of the quarterly GDP release, but the delay worked to our advantage. In addition to reporting the fastest quarterly economic growth in four years, the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised several years of recent economic data and “found” $3 trillion of previously unreported income. The revision is a game-changer as it relates to perspectives on the status of the consumer, which is a critical input to future GDP growth.
In the fourth quarter, the economy expanded by 2.6% bringing real, annualized GDP growth to 2.3% in 2017. In many ways, 2017 was a prototypical post-Financial Crisis year with regards to economic growth. A weak first quarter gave way to stronger growth in the back half of the year, resulting in a good, but not a great year for the economy.
The economy expanded at a real, annualized rate of 2.6% in the second quarter, while first quarter growth was revised down to 1.2% (vs. the previous estimate of 1.4%). The expansion was in line with analyst expectations from the beginning of the quarter and consistent with the post-Financial Crisis pattern of weak first quarters followed by stronger growth in the second quarter.