Execs and the City

Execs and the City

What is Predetermined in Your Life?

The rules you stop questioning become the life you accept.
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Most Rules Are Habits
What I wish someone had told me at 16—and a conversation for our kids.
 • Jacob Warwick
Your Compensation Structure Is Talent Repellent
A note to those who design executive compensation packages—from the person who negotiates against them.
 • Jacob Warwick
How Top Talent and Companies Leave Benchmark Comp Behind
The scripts, the sequencing, and the positioning language for proposing performance-based comp—without getting laughed out of the room.
 • Jacob Warwick
What Nick Richtsmeier Made Me Say Out Loud
The room that claps for you isn't the room that pays you — and most of us figured that out too late.
 • Jacob Warwick
The Severance Playbook—Negotiate Your Divorce Before the Wedding
I’ve kept this behind closed doors because it’s worth tens of thousands in practice. This is the first time I’m putting the full playbook in writing.
 • Jacob Warwick
A Recent $10M+ Deal Shows Where Executive Comp Is Heading
Traditional packages assume performance. Milestone pay proves it.
 • Jacob Warwick
The "Zombie Number" Killing Your Salary Negotiation (What We Didn't Cover on Lenny's Podcast)
Your last comp figure follows you like a ghost. Here's how to kill it before it sits down at the negotiation table.
 • Jacob Warwick
Execs and the City
Execs and the City
Weekly intelligence on leverage, power, and the deals that define careers. Written by the only agent representing top executives at the negotiating table. $1B+ secured.
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