Leadership Library
Amplifying Talent

Multipliers

Liz Wiseman · 2010

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How the best leaders make everyone around them smarter — Multipliers vs. Diminishers.

SK's perspective

It exposes how well-meaning smart leaders accidentally shrink their teams.

Key learnings

  • Multipliers amplify intelligence; Diminishers drain it.
  • Ask questions instead of giving answers.
  • Give the toughest challenges to stretch people.
  • Debate decisions to sharpen thinking.
  • Hold people accountable with ownership.

Make it a ritual

Catch your inner Diminisher daily and switch to asking, not telling.

Professional life

  • Answer one question with a better question each day.
  • Hand a stretch challenge to someone who's ready but untested.

Personal life

  • Resist rescuing; let people solve it themselves once a day.
  • Ask more than you assert in one conversation daily.

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