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The Amp It Up Fieldbook
A Guide for Leaders, Teams, and Facilitators
Frank Slootman (Author)
9781394245024, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 2 May 2024
192 pages
25.2 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.295 kg
Hyper scale your organization with practical prompts and exercises Building on Slootman’s wildly successful book, Amp It Up, this fieldbook helps readers easily apply his conceptual first principles, mindsets, and tactical advice to their own organizations and careers. Readers will learn about:
Snowflake's chairman and former CEO Frank Slootman, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected figures in tech leadership, has penned the Amp It Up Fieldbook to help leaders grow any organization by challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where they count, and being uncompromisingly objective.
With firsthand insight gleaned from Slootman’s personal experience over three decades of building hyper-growth companies, the Amp It Up Fieldbook earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs looking to take their organizations and careers to the next level.
Preface vii 1 Introduction: The Power of Amping Up 1 2 My Journey from Teenage Toilet Cleaner to Serial CEO 7 3 Make Your Organization Mission Driven 13 4 Declare War on Your Competitors and on Incrementalism 21 5 Put Execution Ahead of Strategy 31 6 Hire Drivers, Not Passengers, and Get the Wrong People Off the Bus 43 7 Build a Strong Culture 57 8 Teach Everyone to Go Direct and Build Mutual Trust 65 9 Put Analysis Before Solutions 75 10 Align Incentives for Customer Success 85 11 Ramp Up Sales 89 12 Grow Fast or Die Slow 99 13 Stay Scrappy as You Scale Up 109 14 Materialize Your Opportunities 117 15 Open the Aperture 125 16 Swing for the Fences 135 17 Amp Up Your Career 141 18 Not Just for CEOs: Dealing with Founders and Boards 149 19 Conclusion: Great Leaders Have Great Outcomes 161 Index 165
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
