Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
As a follow-up to my previous post (linked above), the book Multipliers provides some great next steps for first-time managers. What makes great managers we learned is that they are able to get the best out of employees.
Taking that further, how can you create multipliers in your organization that have a significant positive impact? Outside of the 10 or 100x engineer out there, there are ways outside of technical ability to have this effect.
Liz Wiseman and her team sought out to answer this question through a detailed research process and studying those that exemplified these behaviors through the years at highly successful companies.
Who are the multipliers?
- Hard-edged managers who expect great things and drive people to results
- Get more from people because they look beyond their own genius and focus their energy on extracting and extending genius of others
- A liberator who creates a safe environment with bold thinking
- They leverage resources, corporations can get 2x more
10 Ways to Build A Multiplier Culture
- Hold a book talk
- Discuss accidental diminishers learned behavior
- Introduce multiplier mindsets
- Teach multiplier skills
- Fuse multipliers with daily decisions
- Codify a leadership ethos
- Spotlight multiplier moments
- Measure managers
- Pilot a multiplier practice
- Integrate practices with business metrics
With multipliers, it is also important to know the opposite, a diminisher.
Diminisher- leader who operated in silos, found it hard to get things done, and seemed to not be able to do what was needed to achieve goals even with smart people
Organizations should seek to minimize diminishers as leaders, and find ways to turn each of their leaders into multipliers.
What other ways can leaders enable multipliers?
