Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Written by Liz Wiseman
Narrated by Liz Wiseman and John Meagher
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A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.
We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people’s heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now when leaders are expected to do more with less.
In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman explores these two leadership styles, persuasively showing how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation.
In analyzing data from more than 150 leaders, Wiseman has identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use—even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. This revered classic has been updated with new examples of Multipliers, as well as two new chapters one on accidental Diminishers, and one on how to deal with Diminishers.
Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how.
Liz Wiseman
Liz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work. She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University. Liz holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management and a Masters of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Probably the most practical and insightful book I’ve read on leadership
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A must read for any manager, packed with actionable advice.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic ideas in this book to be a good leader.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's been a journey. Started applying the principles in my organization even before I completed the book and I am glad to have completed it. I learnt a lot and I already see results among my team.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I listened to Multipliers after being impressed with Liz wiseman's Impact Players and found both books to be exceptionally packed with practical, useful and applicable information and experiments that have potential for contributing significantly to the maturation of people and organizations, as well as to the betterment of the world.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inspiring and enlightening; makes sense. I recommend this to anybody who works with a group or lives with family. The perspective shift is dazzling and inspiring.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. Teaches specific skills and give tools to unskilled a lower to mid level manager
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book it shows me a clear parh to be a multipliers
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book entered two new words into my vocabulary of personality: “diminisher” and “multiplier.” To Wiseman, these contrasting interpersonal styles are the secret understanding to why some smart people succeed at leadership and others fail. A diminisher is someone who socially tries to prove how smart they are to everyone around them. As such, they promote themselves, not the people around them. In stark contrast, multipliers make the people around them feel smarter and more ingenious on their own. This evokes greater – in other words, multiply – results from the team (as much as twofold according to Wiseman’s data).First, it should be acknowledged that Wiseman and her team did not make up these contrasts on their own. Instead, they conducted qualitative and quantitative research into organizations to understand why some leaders can evoke great results while others do not. The methods of their research are described in an appendix. Although many readers do not like examining research methodology, it’s helpful to see that empiric research, not personal opinion, drives this book’s direction.Most of the book describes five different practices that multipliers do that diminishers do the opposite. They can seem like more personality types rooted in leadership styles. It’s helpful to know that most multipliers do slightly well on most styles but excel at just one or two. This book seeks to identify ways incrementally that people can avoid the bad practices of diminishers and promote a few more good practices.At times, this book can veer into “self-help rah-rah.” That is, it can become more motivational than substance, in spite of the research framework underlying this work. Despite these moments, most of the book communicates the central contrast of multipliers with diminishers. It definitely can evoke readers’ memories of various diminisher authority figures in their history (like bad bosses and bad teachers). Overall, such intellectual processing can prove beneficial because it can remind us why we need to steer away from negative practices that can hurt other people.This book’s intended audience mainly consists of aspiring leaders. It can also consist of current leaders who desire to raise their leadership game. This work was well-received by the reading public when it debuted several years ago and achieved bestseller status. The general message can help motivate people to focus on how their actions affect others more than themselves. While business and social audiences will benefit most from it, we can all become more attuned to how our attitudes, for better or worse, multiply on each other.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A really excellent book to read if you are at all interested in understanding dynamics between a manager/leader and employee direct reports/followers. The author distinguishes between a "Multiplier" and a "Diminisher", the former a manager/boss/leader who can get far more work/accomplishment out of their employees (than they or anyone else believes possible, including the employees themselves) from the latter, who as a leader can actually diminish the amount of work from their employees. then the author goes on to discuss how to become a Multiplier or at least reduce your Diminisher tendencies, and how to work for a "Diminisher" or at least find ways to work around their Diminisher tendencies.I certainly wish this book had been around many years ago in my working life, not only for me to learn how to reduce my Diminisher tendencies and become a real Multiplier. Being retired now, this book does not directly affect my working in a business; however, I found the book to be useful in other situations in life than a boss/employee relationship.The book is not a technical/boring management tome, but very readable and understandable. By using actual examples of individuals in real life and how they were Multipliers or Diminishers, the book is much more interesting.Highly recommended.