Liz Wiseman
Author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
About the Author
Liz Wiseman is a researcher, executive advisor, speaker, teacher, and author. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a Bachelors in Business Management and a Masters in Organizational Behavior. She is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, working as the vice president of Oracle show more University and was a leader for global Human Resource Development. She is the author of Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools. Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smart is her current bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Liz Wiseman
Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (2017) 281 copies, 4 reviews
Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact (2021) 52 copies, 3 reviews
Impact Players 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Wiseman, Elizabeth Allen
- Birthdate
- 1964
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Brigham Young University (BS|1986)
Brigham Young University (MOB|1988) - Organizations
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Members
- 864
- Popularity
- #29,637
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 24
- ISBNs
- 40
- Languages
- 4
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.… (more)