The Amp It up Fieldbook : A Guide for Leaders, Teams, and Facilitators.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slootman, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Business planning.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

Hyper scale your organization with practical prompts and exercises 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. 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: How to align people around first principles that guide change and execute with urgency and intensity every day Maximizing growth and scale without making expensive changes to talent, structure, or fundamental business models The three essential characteristics of great mission statements, and why Slootman chose Snowflake's current mission statement, broken down word-by-word How to identify personal blind spots that keep us from achieving our best 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Power of Amping Up

Get the Lay of the Land

Organizational Scan

Chapter 2 My Journey from Teenage Toilet Cleaner to Serial CEO

Career Highlights

Tough Times

You as a Leader

Chapter 3 Make Your Organization Mission Driven

Draft Your Mission

Big, but Not Impossible

Clarify Your Mission

Measuring Your Mission

Living the Mission Every Day

Chapter 4 Declare War on Your Competitors and on Incrementalism

Know Your Enemy

Know Yourself

Banish Incrementalism

Adopt a Growth Mindset

Outpace Your Competition with a Growth Plan

Leading Your Team into Battle

Chapter 5 Put Execution Ahead of Strategy

Set a Career Path for Execution Excellence

Evaluate Your Execution: On Your Own

Consider Alternatives

Evaluate Your Strategy: With Your Team

Chapter 6 Hire Drivers, Not Passengers, and Get the Wrong People Off the Bus

Drivers and Passengers

Make Room for More Drivers

Drive Active Recruitment

Perform Active Calibration

Manager Evaluation

Peer Evaluation

Calibration

Chapter 7 Build a Strong Culture

Clarify Your Cultural Values

Culture through Accountability

Protect Your Culture

Chapter 8 Teach Everyone to Go Direct and Build Mutual Trust

Identify Silos

Go Direct

Step into a High-Trust Environment

Chapter 9 Put Analysis Before Solutions

When the Solution Is the Problem

Diagnose Your Problem

Pre-interview Planning

Evaluation

New-Hire Calibration

Improving Future Analysis

Chapter 10 Align Incentives for Customer Success

Support Your Customers at Every Level

Chapter 11 Ramp Up Sales

Get the Timing Right

Cross the Chasm

Establish Your Process

Evaluating Resources

Chapter 12 Grow Fast or Die Slow

Build Your Growth Model.

Beating the Competition

Keep Getting Bigger

Managing Costs

Chapter 13 Stay Scrappy as You Scale Up

Peg Your Expenses to Your Stage of Development

The Right Leader for Your State of Development

Chapter 14 Materialize Your Opportunities

Survey the Landscape

Takeaway 1: Attack weakness, not strength.

Takeaway 2: Either create a cost advantage or neutralize someone else's.

Take the Market's Vitals

Takeaway 3: It's much easier to attack an existing market than create a new one.

Takeaway 4: Early adopters buy differently than later adopters.

Takeaway 5: Stay close to home in the early going.

Look End to End

Takeaway 6: Build the whole product or solve the whole problem as fast as you can.

Determine Your Tech

Takeaway 7: Bet on the correct enabling technologies.

Takeaway 8: Architecture is everything.

Keep Looking Ahead

Takeaway 9: Prepare to transform your strategy sooner than you expect.

Chapter 15 Open the Aperture

Identify Super-Grower Potential

Lay the Groundwork for Your Expansion

Plan to Transform Your Strategy

Widen the Aperture

Ice Out the Competition

Chapter 16 Swing for the Fences

Plan the Next Shift

Define Your Strategy Evolution

Chapter 17 Amp Up Your Career

Product-Manage Yourself

Find Your Aptitude

Define Your Path

Stay the Course

Chapter 18 Not Just for CEOs: Dealing with Founders and Boards

Unpack the Founder Mythology

Tread Lightly

Define the Board's Role

Lead Your Board

Consider Your Personal Board

Chapter 19 Conclusion: Great Leaders Have Great Outcomes

Track Your Outcomes

Index

EULA.

Notes:

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Lay the Groundwork for Your Expansion

ISBN:

9781394245031

1394245033

OCLC:

1432599840