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I have spent the past several weeks going through almost 3 years of In The Trenches archives to tease out all of the best insights that we’ve been able to collect from each of our guests specific to Compensation. I won’t need to convince any CEO of how important compensation is, and how fraught with peril it can be when it isn’t done right. Below is a list of our guests and topics, which include timestamps, so you can skip between the segments that are most interesting to you: