Amp it up : leading for hypergrowth by raising expectations, increasing urgency, and elevating intensity / Frank Slootman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slootman, Frank, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Goal (Psychology).

Leadership.

Entrepreneurship.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2022]

Summary:

"Frank Slootman is the only CEO to take three massive companies public and has led two of the world's fastest growing enterprise tech companies of all time. In Amp It Up, Frank shares everything he's learned about what it takes to fully optimize an organization for hyper growth and scale. Broken into 20 chapters addressing the essential challenges for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs, this book is a combination of first principles, mindsets, and tactical advice that, if embraced, will help readers unlock the true potential of their organization. Amp It Up is difficult and uncomfortable--it's about challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where it counts, and being uncompromisingly objective. But its reward is great"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I

Amping Up 1 Chapter 1 Introduction: The Power of Amping Up 3 Chapter 2 My Journey from Teenage Toilet Cleaner to Serial CEO 13 Part II

Raise Your Standards 33 Chapter 3 Make Your Organization Mission Driven 35 Chapter 4 Declare War on Your Competitors and on Incrementalism 45 Chapter 5 Put Execution Ahead of Strategy 55 Part III

Align Your People and Culture 63 Chapter 6 Hire Drivers, Not Passengers, and Get the Wrong People off the Bus 65 Chapter 7 Build a Strong Culture 73 Chapter 8 Teach Everyone to Go Direct and Build Mutual Trust 83 Part IV

Sharpen Your Focus 91 Chapter 9 Put Analysis Before Solutions 93 Chapter 10 Align Incentives for Customer Success 99 Part V

Pick Up the Pace 103 Chapter 11 Ramp Up Sales 105 Chapter 12 Grow Fast or Die Slow 113 Chapter 13 Stay Scrappy as You Scale Up 123 Part VI

Transform Your Strategy 131 Chapter 14 Materialize Your Opportunities

the Data Domain Growth Story 133 Chapter 15 Open the Aperture

the ServiceNow Expansion Story 143 Chapter 16 Swing for the Fences

the Snowflake Growth Story 151 Part VII

The Amped-Up Leader 157 Chapter 17 Amp Up Your Career 159 Chapter 18 Just for CEOs

Dealing with Founders and Boards 171 Chapter 19 Conclusion

Great Leaders Have Great Outcomes 181 Acknowledgments 183 Index 185

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-83640-9

1-119-83641-7

OCLC:

1293243949