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

by Frank Slootman, David Marantz (Read by)

Overview

Snowflake's chairman and former CEO Frank Slootman 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 listeners easily apply his conceptual first principles, mindsets, and tactical advice to their own organizations and careers. Listeners 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 more

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798874826192
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Frank Slootman is chairman and former CEO of Snowflake, Inc., where he guided the company to the largest software IPO ever. He served as CEO and president of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, where he 10x'd revenue and led the company through an IPO.

David Marantz is an actor living in New York City. He has narrated eighty-five-plus titles since his first in 2011. He won an AudioFile Earphones Award for The Mind Club by Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray, and was nominated for an Audie Award for his contribution to the short story collection Rip-Off! As an actor he has worked on stage, film, and television. Summers often find him performing Shakespeare for Shakespeare in the Parking Lot on New York's Lower East Side and also in Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.

Table of Contents

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