Frank Slootman
The chief architect behind Snowflake and ServiceNow shows how to raise performance standards, narrow focus, and accelerate the organizational pace so companies can get more from the resources and talent they already have.
To raise standards, leaders should reject mediocre work and only accept initiatives and proposals that their teams are genuinely excited about.
True focus requires treating priority as a singular concept, ranking tasks sequentially rather than in parallel, and eliminating marginal projects that drain resources.
Increasing the pace of an organization is a mental shift achieved by systematically compressing execution timelines and reducing the time between decisions.