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Get the Summary of Frank Slootman's Amp It Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising...
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#1 The best CEOs understand that uncertainty favors the bold, and they embrace it by constantly looking for and acting on opportunities that bend the curve of history.
#2 The most successful CEOs reframed what winning meant for their companies. They didn't just raise aspiration levels, they changed the definition of success.
#3 The best CEOs find and amplify intersections...
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Get the Summary of Rob Copeland's The Fund in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Fund is a thrilling, stranger-than-fiction journey into a rarefied world of wealth and power. It offers an unflinching look at the pain so often caused by the "radical transparency" Dalio has described as a core tenet of his recipe for business success and a meaningful life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews...
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#1 A single moment in time can change a person's life. I believe this firmly, just as I believe that it's the small and simple moments that compound over time to write our life story. Some of these moments may feel trivial, but together they are always driving us to our next destination.
#2 The CEO of the sports-related store told his audience that 70 percent of their...
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Book Preview: #1 I was hired to be the manager of the Facebook team in May of 2006. I had very little experience, but I was eager to make my mark on the world. I had no institutionalized doctrines or tragic failures to speak of.
#2 The answers to the question, What is the job of a manager. are an assortment of activities. If I asked you, What is the job of a soccer player. you would...
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Book Preview: #1 The voice of not-me is the internal chatter that tells a woman she's not ready to lead, she's not enough of an expert, or she's not good enough at this or that. It's the voice of self-doubt, of the inner critic.
#2 Self-doubt is so destructive when not dealt with, but manageable once you know those tools. I've become passionate about helping women and girls learn...
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Get the Summary of Captain Sandy Yawn's Be the Calm or Be the Storm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Be the Calm or Be the Storm" by Captain Sandy Yawn is a compelling narrative that intertwines the author's maritime adventures with life lessons on leadership and personal growth. Captain Yawn recounts her journey from a troubled past, including substance addiction and legal issues, to becoming a respected superyacht...
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Book Preview: “Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love” (2008) is a business self-help book that tackles the main challenges in discovering and developing viable technology-powered products. Silicon Valley-based product executive Marty Cagan mainly addresses product managers, emphasizing the differences between successful and unsuccessful tech-product companies. After...
9) Summary of Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore & James Wood's Project Management for the Unofficial Pro
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Book Preview: #1 The majority of people we've interviewed say that between 60 and 80 percent of their work is project based. But when we ask if they are project managers, virtually all say no. They are anything but project managers.
#2 If you spend a large portion of your day working on projects, you are also an unofficial project manager. And you're not alone. A lot of us have quietly...
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Book Preview: #1 The day-to-day practice of product management involves a lot less building than it does supporting, facilitating, and communicating. In this chapter, we discuss the actual, real-world practice of product management.
#2 A product manager is responsible for the success of a product. They may organize meetings, negotiate product roadmaps with senior executives, and work...
11) Summary of Michael L. George, John Maxey, David T. Rowlands & Mark Price's The Lean Six Sigma Poc
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#1 DMAIC is a valuable tool that helps people find permanent solutions to long-standing or tricky business problems. The basic framework works well in a wide variety of situations, but using DMAIC does involve time and expense. So you should weigh the costs of using DMAIC against the benefits and the costs of skipping some steps or jumping right into solutions.
#2 The...
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Book Preview: #1 Bias is not meaning it, and comes from the part of our mind that jumps to conclusions, usually without our being aware of it. We can learn to slow down and question our biases. Prejudice is when we stop to think and come up with the wrong answer, and often we justify our biases rather than challenging their flawed assumptions and stereotypes.
#2 When dealing with...
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#1 The Persian king Xerxes had a dream that his armies would be defeated by the Greeks. His adviser and uncle Artabanus told him not to worry, because if he did not attack Greece, he would be punished by being humiliated again.
#2 Xerxes was the king of Persia, and he wanted to conquer Greece. He prayed to the sun for the strength to conquer not just Greece, but all...
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Book Preview: #1 The world is a lot bigger than what you see around you. The majority of people don't understand the reality of what's happening in the world because their communities are so insular.
#2 As your life expectancy increases, so should your timelines for goals. If you're twenty-seven and hate your job after working your way up for five years, it's fine to take a step backward...
16) Summary of C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan & Michael Connors's Product Roadmaps Relau
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#1 A good roadmap is not so much a project plan as a strategic communication tool. It should state the company's direction and intent, and be flexible enough for teams to adapt to the lean and agile methods they have adopted.
#2 The term customer refers to the recipient of the value your product provides. It can refer to the buyer and the user of your product, but it...
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#1 A project is started when an idea sounds promising. A project manager is hired to manage tasks and people, but not necessarily the domain. The objective is not to deliver projects but to deliver value through products that ultimately lead to higher revenue and lower costs for your organization.
#2 The product mindset is an outside in approach that uses external measurements...
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Book Preview: #1 The selection process is the key to your success as an executive and the success of your company. When you have to hire, the best rule is to hire slowly and carefully.
#2 When you are in the position of hiring someone, it is common to make the mistake of hiring as a solution to a problem. You are overloaded with work, and you have a hole that needs to be filled. You...
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Book Preview: #1 When you have no customers, no press, and nobody knows or cares about what you're making, the only way to get any sort of motivation is through manufactured milestones.
#2 The great void of feedback and reward that early-stage start-ups must endure is especially apparent at start-up conferences like Web Summit. anonymity means you can make mistakes and drastic changes...
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Book Preview: #1 I had been trying to convert my interest in less into something I could study. From the start, I had studied ways that buildings and cities might use less energy, and produce fewer climate-changing emissions. I had homed in on the designers, finding that they use mental shortcuts.
#2 I was able to bring many of the other parents up to speed by explaining to them that...
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