Frank Slootman Knihy

The key to driving growth lies in your mindset. Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman, a leading figure in enterprise growth, shares his leadership philosophy for the first time. He reveals how to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale, drawing from his success in leading Snowflake to the largest software IPO and previous ventures like ServiceNow and Data Domain. Slootman emphasizes that leaders can significantly enhance their organization's performance without costly changes to talent, structure, or business models, and without relying on consultants. Instead, they must align their teams around key priorities and execute with urgency and intensity daily. Achieving unprecedented growth requires a commitment to combat mediocrity, challenge the status quo, and make difficult choices with a relentless focus on the mission. This resource outlines foundational principles to guide transformative change and offers practical advice for structuring a company around these principles. It is essential reading for executives, entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and leaders aiming to unlock their company's growth potential and achieve remarkable scaling.

THE AMP IT UP FIELDBOOK HYPER SCALE YOUR ORGANIZATION WITH PRACTICAL PROMPTS AND EXERCISES Snowflake 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.