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born 1964
Liz Wiseman (born in 1964) is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.
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Once leaders create a great place to work, they expect people to do great work."
“Our greatest joy comes when we dare to begin again.”
The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.
“The most profound contribution Silicon Valley has made to the workplace is really democratizing the workplace and really letting go of hierarchy and creating irreverence for leadership.”
The fundamental job of leadership is to ask the right questions. Let your team find the answers.”
Organizations are replete with under-challenged masses.
You don’t need experience to be able to contribute, in fact, sometimes we are at our best when we don’t.”
Their strength lies in understanding that problems are constantly lurking around corners," They then become masters of improvisation and redirection.
Impact Players hold the fundamental belief that I am an important part of the team. They not only do their job well, they help their colleagues do their jobs well too.
“Another essential job of leaders is to size challenges right. To know how to size a challenge to an entire enterprise so that its hard enough that people have to leave the status quo, but just do-able enough so that you can score wins.
“It really is my wish for everyone that they have a career full of jobs that they are a little bit — maybe a lot — unqualified for.”
I believe that when we are good at our jobs, we begin to secretly resent our jobs. Actually we are at our happiest when we have a job that’s like a size too big. Now, I don’t recommend people go out and get a job that is two sizes too big. It’s like getting that fit right.”
The idea of being a multiplier is that you use all of the intelligence that’s available to you, including your own. When you are so fixated on your own intelligence that the people around don’t get to be smart, people end up under contributing because of that.”