One of the most crucial responsibilities of a leader is to grow more leaders. It’s not something that is highlighted often enough! In her research, NY Times best selling author Liz Wiseman found that those who work to bring out the genius in others have a 2x impact on the results of the business. She called these folks “Multipliers”. She also discovered that those who diminish others reduce productivity by 48%. Most astonishing was that there was a proportion of well-intentioned leaders who were ‘accidental diminishers’. In our conversation we explore what we can do to avoid being an accidental diminisher.
Why you should listen: leadership skills and mindset for being a multiplier
How your followers can read your mind and know your leadership mindset
Why being an optimist all the time is bad leadership practice - we also need to ‘signal the struggle’
Embed this crucial leadership skill: There are three stages to learning to be a successful multiplier, starting with the three ‘whats’ of delegation: what does good or great look like, what does ‘done’ look like, and what’s not in range for the task
We explore leadership journeys from the classroom to the boardroom
How Liz liked being bossy and that led to a career in teaching leadership
How to overcome fear of losing control and diminished status if we become Multipliers
One of the assumptions or practices we need to adopt as an MVP is to become a problem solver and not just a job holder.
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About Liz Wiseman:
Leadership skills with bestselling author, 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 in 2019 was recognized as the top leadership thinker 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. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University and is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.