Why is it that some leaders are able to stretch and build the intelligence, creativity and motivation of their employees, while other leaders seem only to disengage and drain the collective talent found within their teams? That’s the basis of my conversation with leadership researcher and best-selling author Liz Wiseman.
Liz is the president of The Wiseman Group, a research and development firm that conducts research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence. Some of her clients include Nike, Apple, PayPal, Genentech, Dubai Bank, Salesforce.com, and Twitter. Prior to founding her research firm, Liz worked for 17 years at Oracle as the Vice President of Oracle University and the global leaders for Human Resource Development.
In addition to writing for the Harvard Business Review, Liz co-wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller, “Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter”, which features some of the research she’s done looking at leadership and collective intelligence.
Over the course of our conversation, Liz shares a number of stories and research findings that help to illustrate:
What’s the “dirty little secret of the corporate world” that we don’t talk about and how it’s impacting employee engagement.How “multiplier” leaders stretch and grow talent to increase team productivity, instead of relying on attaining more resources to achieve goals.Why leaders need to go “public” with their mistakes to engender team success and building community.How encouraging debate can improve both decision-making and employee engagement.What “multiplier” leaders do that motivates their employees to do their best work.What the research findings into “multiplier” leaders reveals about opportunities to improve our Education system in order to create leaders and employees that organizations will need in the years ahead.
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Noteworthy links:
Buy Liz Wiseman’s book “Multipliers” on Amazon.com (or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers).Buy Liz Wiseman’s new book “The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside our Schools” on Amazon.com (or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers).Learn more about Liz’s work and speaking engagements at TheWisemanGroup.com.Take the “Are you an accidental diminisher” quiz on Multipliersbook.com.
