> Pay them and hurt the company, or don’t pay but maybe lose your best employees. There's always another option: restructuring (the organization, compensation

> Pay them and hurt the company, or don’t pay but maybe lose your best employees. There's always another option: restructuring (the organization, compensation structures, product portfolios and market positioning...), getting in the trenches (understanding that performance fundamentally depends on emotional state)... The "math" tells you where you are, and it can illustrate that you sometimes work within real limitations, but it doesn't define how you should react.