Focus - “Founders don’t have a mindset around operating companies. A leader must always push the standard higher. Raise Your Standards - Push for insanely great. Passengers - “Passengers are people who don’t mind simply being carried along by the company’s momentum …They are often pleasant, get along with everyone, attend meetings promptly, and generally do not stand out as troublemakers … While passengers can often diagnose and articulate a problem quite well, they have no investment in solving it.” Frank wants front-seat drivers who’ll take ownership, make trouble, and help navigate. When you're dead, you're dead." Frank's leadership team: We are not balanced, we are available to each other 24/7. They have passion High trust Need some ego, but it has to be in check Legacy? "I don't think about legacy much. The leadership "must-have" qualities: A need to prove something Unbalanced They want to show the world something. “Instead of getting back to me in a week, I asked, “Why not tomorrow?” Change the cadence. Which I have eliminated at every company I’ve joined in the last 20 years.” Push the pace - Leaders set the pace. NO MBO - “Another source of misalignment is management by objective (MBO). Hiring - “Hire people ahead of their own curve.” Hire more for aptitude than experience and give people the career opportunity of a lifetime. After retiring from ServiceNow in 2017, Frank had no intention of taking another CEO role, but people like him “have a hard time leaving the arena.” It’s exciting to be back in a CEO role with Snowflake. “The Man In The Arena” Theodore Roosevelt – Frank put this at the beginning of Amp It Up. He also cleaned factory toilets one summer in the plant where his dad worked. In his teens, he had summer jobs harvesting tulip bulbs and walking behind a tractor ten hours a day. He's also the best-selling author of Amp It Up.įrank's work ethic was developed as a child in the Netherlands. Prior to that, Frank served as President at EMC following an acquisition of Data Domain Corporation, where he served as the CEO, leading the company through an IPO to its acquisition by EMC for $2.4B. Frank served as CEO of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, taking the organization from $100M in revenue, through an IPO, to $1.4B.
Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Text Hawk to 66866 to become part of "Mindful Monday." Join 10's of thousands of your fellow learning leaders and receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right.įrank Slootman is the CEO at Snowflake.
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