Book Byte #125 "Amp it Up" by Frank Slootman
Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author
“If you don't know how to execute, every strategy will fail, even the most promising ones. As one of my former bosses observed: “No strategy is better than its execution.”
“Priority” should ideally only be used as a singular word. The moment you have many priorities, you actually have none.”
“Get in the habit of constantly prioritizing and reprioritizing.”
“good judgment comes from bad judgment.” Experience may be overrated by some, but it's hard to find a substitute for it.”
“Vagueness causes confusion, but clarity of thought and purpose is a huge advantage in business. Good leadership requires a never‐ending process of boiling things down to their essentials. Spell out what you mean! If priorities are not clearly understood at the top, how distorted will they be down the line?”
“Do an unsentimental evaluation of what resources and staff you have versus how much you really need. There is usually more performance and efficiency to be gained from your existing staff, before you take the path of least resistance—unplanned, incremental growth, leading to mediocrity and waste. One of your biggest responsibilities is to stop that incremental attitude in its tracks.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:
Unleashing an organization's true potential is about enhancing current capabilities rather than reinventing them. Navigating corporate excellence entails prioritizing execution above strategy, cultivating a culture of driven individuals and collaboration, delving deeply into rooted analysis, true customer focus, and shaping leadership as a never-ending journey of progress. With six transformative stages, any organization can move from mediocrity to unprecedented success, changing the frontiers of corporate mastery. Accept the path and amp it up; unprecedented success awaits.
🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry
Mediocrity is the killer of Hope.
If all you want to be is mediocre, then all you want is a mediocre career, relationships and life.
Desire and Curiosity are at the forefront of having hope that things can get better,
🤝Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:
What do you hope for?
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