LIZ WISEMAN

President, The Wiseman Group
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Leadership and Strategy Consultant

Session 3: The Multiplier Effect

• Former executive at Oracle Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, she held positions as Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development for 17 years
• President of the Wiseman Group, a Silicon Valley leadership development firm
• Contributor to Harvard Business Review and author of the best-selling leadership strategy book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
• Liz coined the term “Multipliers” to describe leaders who amplify the intelligence of others utilizing specific practices to deliver twice the performance for their organizations

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Are you a diminisher or a multiplier?

Liz Wiseman presented the definition and the case for being a multiplying leader.  So challenging but so good!

Here are my notes:

There is more intelligence in our teams than we can see and are putting to use.

As a leader you can be a multiplier by using your intelligence to amplify and multiply the capability of people around you.  As a result, the people around you do their best work.

Diminishers:

• Create stress.
• Rarely ask people to solve problems they don’t know how to do.
• Delegate small decisions.
• Are empire builders.
• Tyrants
• Know-it-alls
• Decision Makers
• Micro-managers

Multipliers:

• Believe people are smart and will figure it out.
• Invite people into the space of difficulty and challenge.
• Create owners, not hirelings.
• Are talent managers
• Liberators
• Challengers
• Debate Makers
• Investors

Some of us are accidental diminishers – have a diminishing effect in spite of good intentions

Types of accidental diminishers:

• The idea guy
• Always-on
• Rescuer
• Pacesetter
• Rapid Responder
• Optimist

Liz’s book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, is on the top of my reading list.  This conversation is important to our health and influence as leaders.  I encourage you to read it too!