“Maintain an active recruiting posture,” making sure the people at your company are motivated contributors and not just “passengers” (p. Hire Drivers, Not Passengers, and Get the Wrong People Off the Bus. “Strategy can’t really be mastered until you know how to execute well” – and execution is a “teachable competency” (p. Have a “visceral sense of contest” and resist erring on the side of caution (pp.

41).ĭeclare War on Your Competitors and on Incrementalism. Once your mission is set, work on four things: “focus, urgency, execution, and strategy” (p. “A clear and compelling sense of mission has been one of the essential keys to our consistent growth and success” (p. Understand that experience is invaluable and teaches you to fix what can be fixed sooner rather than later. Choose wisely where you start your career. My Journey from Teenage Toilet Cleaner to Serial CEO. O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.“Leadership changes can yield immediate impact long before you can carry out more structural changes in talent, organization, and strategy” (p. Get Amp It Up now with the O’Reilly learning platform. The concepts, strategies, and tactics you will find here were developed over my entire career but especially at the three very. That's why I'm writing this book: to summarize my convictions, observations, and beliefs about how to lead a mission‐driven, high‐performance company. I believe it's incumbent on leaders to share our experience with others, but doing so in small groups (let alone one‐on‐one) isn't efficient or scalable, especially when you have a consuming day job. While l love speaking to other leaders, especially entrepreneurs, and while I speak at conferences and business schools from time to time, I couldn't possibly accommodate everyone who wanted to learn more about my Amp It Up philosophy. It also led to a flood of incoming requests for sit‐downs and speaking engagements. That article triggered thousands of likes, shares, and comments. What you need on day one is to ratchet up expectations, energy, urgency, and intensity. You don't need to bring in reams of consultants to examine everything that is going on. Raise your standards, pick up the pace, sharpen your focus, and align your people. My basic advice was to keep playing your game but amp things up dramatically. 1 Introduction: The Power of Amping Up Amp It UpĪ few years ago I wrote a popular LinkedIn article, “Amp It Up,” whose main premise was that organizations have considerable room to improve their performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure, or fundamental business model.

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