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Most people won’t make an extraordinary effort. They’ll make an ordinary effort. The only competitive advantage comes from having people who will make an extraordinary effort.
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Going from good to great requires paying attention to details and exceeding expectations, not just meeting them. It means relentlessly raising the bar on individual and team performance at all levels.
Accepting mediocrity anywhere cripples an organization's competitiveness.
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Building a championship team is not about marquee names but rather people with drive, initiative, and a track record of outperformance.
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Creating a high-performance culture requires leaders to set an intense pace and lead by example.
The culture must align around key principles and values like customer focus, excellence, innovation, and teamwork.
Culture is established early and hard to change later.
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All efforts must align around strategy. Build streamlined, metrics-driven management systems to track progress. Stay close to the details of execution.
Push for speed but not recklessness. Do not tolerate mediocre execution or excuses.
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Build products that are not just incrementally better but fundamentally unique. Go beyond customer asks to delight them. Take risks on innovation but demand rigor.
Ensure development priorities align tightly with strategy. Kill less differentiated products.
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Big marketing budgets are wasted without sustained programs to engage customers and promote differentiated positioning. Nurture target customer relationships. Promote thought leadership.
Build programs around key strategies and messages.
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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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The book Amp It Up by Frank Slootman shares leadership and management wisdom from his experience growing companies like Data Domain, ServiceNow and Snowflake. It provides advice on culture, talent, strategy, sales, marketing, product development and more. Slootman aims to help leaders ramp up performance.
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