Liz Wiseman > Quotes

“When leaders teach, they invest in their people’s ability to solve and avoid problems in the future.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. ANTOINE DE ST. EXUPERY”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Perhaps these leaders understood that the person sitting at the apex of the intelligence hierarchy is the genius maker, not the genius.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“The Diminisher is a Micromanager who jumps in and out. The Multiplier is an Investor who gives others ownership and full accountability.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Multipliers invoke each person’s unique intelligence and create an atmosphere of genius—innovation, productive effort, and collective intelligence.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“the leader’s job is to put other people on stage.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“It is better to debate a decision without settling it than settling a decision without debating it. JOSEPH JOUBERT”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Don’t just identify the problem; find a solution.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Multipliers aren’t “feel-good” managers. They look into people and find capability, and they want to access all of it. They utilize people to their fullest. They see a lot, so they expect a lot.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Multipliers increase intelligence in people and in organizations. People actually get smarter and more capable around them.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“THE FOUR PRACTICES OF THE TALENT MAGNET Among the Multipliers we studied in our research, we found four active practices that together catalyze and sustain this cycle of attraction. These Talent Magnets: 1) look for talent everywhere; 2) find people’s native genius; 3) utilize people at their fullest; and 4) remove the blockers. Let”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Stress is created when people are expected to produce outcomes that are beyond their control.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Your job is to unleash the full potential of each person on your team.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“The Diminisher is a Know-It-All who gives directives. The Multiplier is a Challenger who defines opportunities.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“THE 5 DISCIPLINES OF THE MULTIPLIERS Diminisher The Empire Builder: Hoards resources and underutilizes talent The Tyrant: Creates a tense environment that suppresses people’s thinking and capability The Know-It-All: Gives directives that showcase how much they know The Decision Maker: Makes centralized, abrupt decisions that confuse the organization The Micro Manager: Drives results through their personal involvement Multiplier The Talent Magnet: Attracts talented people and uses them at their highest point of contribution The Liberator: Creates an intense environment that requires people’s best thinking and work The Challenger: Defines an opportunity that causes people to stretch The Debate Maker: Drives sound decisions through rigorous debate”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Diminishers underutilize people and leave capability on the table.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“speaking the language of multiplication (that is, higher growth by better utilizing the resources that already exist).”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Multipliers get more from their people because they are leaders who look beyond their own genius and focus their energy on extracting and extending the genius of others.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Impact Players Wear Opportunity Goggles The approach taken by Impact Players isn’t just marginally different, it is radically different—and”
― Liz Wiseman, Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact

“Jae reflected on the leader’s role: “You can jump in and teach and coach, but then you have to give the pen back. When you give that pen back, your people know they are still in charge.” When something is off the rails, do you take over or do you invest? When you take the pen to add your ideas, do you give it back? Or does it stay in your pocket? Multipliers invest in the success of others. They may jump in to teach and share their ideas, but they always return to accountability. When leaders fail to return ownership, they create dependent organizations. This is the way of the Diminisher. They jump in, save the day, and drive results through their personal involvement. When leaders return the pen, they cement the accountability for action where it should be. This creates organizations that are free from the nagging need of the leader’s rescue.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

“Good leaders don’t just give people more work, they give them harder work—a bigger challenge that prompts deep learning and growth.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. WOODROW WILSON”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Mistakes are an essential part of progress.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“The promise of a Multiplier is that they get twice the capacity, plus a growth dividend from their people as their genius expands under the leadership of the Multiplier.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“Do the Job That’s Needed.”
― Liz Wiseman, Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact

“so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
― Liz Wiseman, Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work – An Essential Guide to Overcoming Obsolescence Through Continuous Growth

“To lead on purpose, we must understand how we diminish by accident.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers, Revised and Updated: Unlocking The Secrets of Effective Leadership to Maximize Team Potential

“The Diminisher is an Empire Builder. The Multiplier is a Talent Magnet.”
― Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter