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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 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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#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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Book Preview: #1 The four dimensions of our nature are our body, our relationships with others, our mind, and our spirit. The mission statement should deal with all four. It should be based on principles, and it should deal with the totality of life.
#2 When you are developing a personal mission statement, you must go into your deep inner life, which is your secret life. It is where...
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#1 The financial system takes from society, and the more it takes, the less the investor earns. The more the financial system takes from you, the less you have. The investor feeds at the bottom of the food chain of investing.
#2 The financial sector, which was booming at the time, began to crumble in 2007. The industry was led by Citigroup and investment banks Merrill...
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Book Preview: #1 John Berger, house detective, is constantly watching shoppers in a department store on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He is focus embodied. His gaze roams like a spotlight. He is panoramic awareness alternating with constant vigilance for a telling but rare signal.
#2 Attention is a little-known and underappreciated mental asset. It is the beam of awareness that guides...
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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...
9) 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 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...
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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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#1 When you have multiple objectives, you must make tradeoffs among them. The more alternatives you're considering and the more objectives you're pursuing, the more tradeoffs you'll need to make.
#2 To make decision making easier, try to eliminate dominated alternatives. If alternative A is better than alternative B on some objectives and no worse than B on all other...
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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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Book Preview: #1 We're taught from a young age that there's a right way to do things: get good grades, go to college, choose a career path, start a business, collect a steady paycheck, and upsize our spending as our pay increases. But life doesn't have to go that way.
#2 Retirement is a loaded term that is filled with imagery of sipping an umbrella drink on a beach. But in reality,...
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Book Preview: #1 People are the most important aspect of a business. If you are not happy, you should consider making changes to your life and your work environment. If you would enthusiastically rehire everyone, knowing what you know now, you should address the issues that are draining your emotional energy.
#2 There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody...
17) Summary of Jim Dethmer & Diana Chapman & Kaley Warner Klemp's The 15 Commitments of Conscious Lea
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Book Preview: #1 Blame is a powerful motivator. It is one of the most common forms of motivation used by leaders, parents, politicians, and clergy. When things don't go the way we want them to go, the default setting for most of us is to place blame and find fault.
#2 Blame, shame, and guilt are all products of toxic fear. When things don't go the way we think they should, our natural...
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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...
20) 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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