Book Titles

Amp It Up
Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

By Frank Slootman

Year Published: 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1119836414
Categories: Expectations, Growth, Urgency

98 Quotes Found

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Things can go bad very quickly in an organization when the leadership team is weak or gets distracted.

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Having seen things done is not the same as doing them.

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People lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. Don’t do it. Fight that impulse every step of the way.

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If you need MBO [management by objectives] to get people to do their job, you may have the wrong people, the wrong managers, or both.

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…think about execution more sequentially than in parallel. Work on fewer things at the same time, and prioritize hard.

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The questions you should ask constantly: What are we not going to do? What are the consequences of not doing something? Get in the habit of constantly prioritizing and reprioritizing.

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Priority’ should ideally only be used as a singular word. The moment you have many priorities, you actually have none.

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Good leadership requires a never-ending process of boiling things down to their essentials. Spell out what you mean!

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We can move so much quicker if we just change the mindset.

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Good performers crave a culture of energy.

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