VERNE HARNISH is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’
Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members world-wide, and founded
and chaired for fi fteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at
MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.
Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and
coaching company with over 290 partners on six continents, Verne
has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.
The Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at
Harvard, he’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits;
authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which
Jim Collins wrote the foreword; wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller
Habits 2.0), which has been translated into 26 languages and has
won eight major international book awards including the
International Book Award for Best General Business book; and is the
co-author of Scaling Up Compensation. His latest book is Start to
Scale.
Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan
Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the
social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many
scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying
member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
SEBASTIAN ROSS is a thought leader and consultant in the space of
People, Culture, and Conscious Business. Sebastian started his
career as an entrepreneur in the technology space and later as a
partner in a venture capital firm. In recent years, Sebastian held
leadership roles as CEO and other C-level positions with several
international scaleups. He is currently the Director of the School
of Founders Program at the IESE Business School in Barcelona.
Scaling Up Compensation is an excellent resource for management and
boards working to scale their companies or making changes to their
business strategy and ways of working. Verne and Sebastian, through
their interrelated 5 Design Principles, masterfully illustrate how
to design effective and tailored compensation plans. I fully concur
that the end goal of any successful compensation design is to
increase the total energy within employees so that they
collectively achieve the right results the right way. An
insightful, engaging and pragmatic read!— Cynthia Trudell, Retired
Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer,
PepsiCo
Doing everything differently is a hallmark of great firms – and
that includes a company’s approach to compensation. This
easy-to-read book is an essential primer in getting you to ask the
right questions in designing a compensation plan that is right for
your organization.— Shari Conaway, Senior Director, People
Department, Southwest Airlines
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