Aflac Inc. decided to adopt a say-on-pay advisory vote in 2007 and chief execuive Daniel Amos was surprised by the reaction. The chief executive approved of it, however, because it fit with the model set throughout the company's history of being a transparent organization. Amos stopped short of saying that the government should require all companies to give shareholders a say-on-pay, however, saying instead that companies should listen to their shareholders because they own the company. It will be interesting to see how much response the vote generates in the 2008 proxy after all the press it has been receiving.