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

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

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), with over 16,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO's premiere CEO program, the "Birthing of Giants" 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 200 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.

He's the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times," for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; and wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) which has been translated into 22 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. His latest book, Scaling Up Compensation, rocketed to the #1 HR book on Amazon.

Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits and 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.