Summary of Frank Slootman's Amp It Up

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 Leadership changes can have a huge impact on a company’s performance. Without focused leadership, millions of conflicting priorities compete with each other, and the best people in the organization get frustrated and leave.

#2 The five steps to Amp It Up are raise your standards, align your people, sharpen your focus, pick up the pace, and transform your strategy. You can try these ideas on for size and see if they fit.

#3 Raise the bar for everything you do. Don’t let malaise set in. Bust it up and raise the standards. It takes less mental energy to raise standards than it does to lower them.

#4 Alignment is important in a company as it grows, as each employee should be pulling in the same direction. MBO, or management by objectives, is a bad way to manage employees as it makes them act as if they are running their own show, and they are compensated based on their personal metrics, making it difficult to pull them off projects.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669357339

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Insights on Frank Slootman's Amp It Up

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Leadership changes can have a huge impact on a company’s performance. Without focused leadership, millions of conflicting priorities compete with each other, and the best people in the organization get frustrated and leave.

#2

The five steps to Amp It Up are raise your standards, align your people, sharpen your focus, pick up the pace, and transform your strategy. You can try these ideas on for size and see if they fit.

#3

Raise the bar for everything you do. Don’t let malaise set in. Bust it up and raise the standards. It takes less mental energy to raise standards than it does to lower them.

#4

Alignment is important in a company as it grows, as each employee should be pulling in the same direction. MBO, or management by objectives, is a bad way to manage employees as it makes them act as if they are running their own show, and they are compensated based on their personal metrics, making it difficult to pull them off projects.

#5

Organizations are often spread too thinly across too many priorities, and too many of them are ill defined. It is easy to lose sight of the big picture when drowning in day-to‐day obligations.

#6

The pace of an organization is set by its leaders. When you