we get more with reggie gupta, and robert denham, the task force on capital compensation. thanks so much for joining us. obviously there's a lot of talk about compensation these days. is that what led you to come up with these guidelines? tell me what you put in place in order to come out with a set of guidelines. >> we started working on this, because of the importance of compensation to companies. compensation is an incredibly important tool that companies use to manage their business. and if companies lose control of the ability to use this tool, they'll be much less effective. so we had a task force, we met for several months, came out with a report that we think provides intensely practical advice about how to get compensation right. >> reggie, most people would like to see the government out of the compensation setting game. tell me what role washington should have here. >> first of all, this was a group of ceos, shareholders, government experts, investors, who really worked on this together. so i think it gifts you a per sec tiff from all stakeholders. clearly gover