Finally, each of the successful organizations linked incentive compensation to the Balances Scorecard. Most executive opted for a team-based, system for rewarding performance. They used the business unit and division scorecard as the basis for reward, an approach that stressed the importance of teamwork in executing strategy. Compensation could be based on up to twenty-five strategic measures. Instead of promoting confusion, as many feared, the scorecard compensation systems heightened the employees’ interest in all components of the strategy and furthered their demand for knowledge and information about scorecard everyone understood it and was motivated to execute it.