Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO at Snowflake shares his three hacks to scale companies: increase velocity, raise the bar, narrow the focus. Read more below 👇
The role of a leader is to change the status quo, step up the pace, and increase the intensity. Leaders are the energy bunnies and pacemakers of the organization.
As a leader, you look for and exploit every single opportunity to step up the pace, expect a higher quality outcome, and narrow the plane of attack.
INCREASE VELOCITY: When someone would ask me if he could get back to me next week, I would reply “how about tomorrow morning”? Change people’s sense of urgency.
Stepping up the pace doesn’t just cause people to do things faster. They start doing things differently. They become more demanding of others. This is precisely what you want in an organization.
RAISE THE BAR: He quotes Steve Jobs who had just two classifications: it’s either ‘insanely great’, or it’s ‘total shit’. There is no middle ground, Steve took it away.
Mediocrity is the silent killer. Organizations are not getting killed by their C players. Everybody knows who they are, and performance eventually is addressed. The people who kill organizations are your B players.
NARROW THE FOCUS: The fastest way to move a dial is narrow the focus. People naturally resist focus because they can’t decide what is important. When you narrow focus, you are increasing the resourcing on the remaining priority.
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