Phil Grant is a management consultant and Professor of Management at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. He is a former Dean and Department Chair at Husson, and has helped more than 100 prominent organizations improve management of the human resource. Professor Grant has written and published ten books and over 165 articles on human performance in organizations. Among his most outstanding creative achievements are the founding of the Law of Escalating Marginal Sacrifice, the discovery of 132 plus major management uses for properly prepared job descriptions, and the creation of a unique job design-based performance model.