Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman (born in 1964) is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and 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, she was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world.

Quotes

• Their strength lies in understanding that problems are constantly lurking around corners," They then become masters of improvisation and redirection.
• Impact Players hold the fundamental belief that I am an important part of the team. They not only do their job well, they help their colleagues do their jobs well too.
• Once leaders create a great place to work, they expect people to do great work."
  • LIZ WISEMAN’S IMPACT PLAYERS: A LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK FOR IMPACT Growth Faculty Learn (18 October 2022)
• We are a leadership, research, and development firm so we care about our leadership, and our  mission is to rid the world of bad bosses. We are trying to create workplaces where people want to go to work, where they love their boss, where they feel productive and utilized and contributing at their fullest. We are really about developing the kind of leadership where people can contribute fully and where work is actually joyful.”
  • Building Great Leaders with Liz Wiseman, CEO of The Wiseman Group Mission (August 16, 2013)
• “It really is my wish for everyone that they have a career full of jobs that they are a little bit — maybe a lot — unqualified for.”
• I believe that when we are good at our jobs, we begin to secretly resent our jobs. Actually we are at our happiest when we have a job that’s like a size too big. Now, I don’t recommend people go out and get a job that is two sizes too big. It’s like getting that fit right.”
  • Building Great Leaders with Liz Wiseman, CEO of The Wiseman Group Mission (August 16, 2013)
• The fundamental job of leadership is to ask the right questions. Let your team find the answers.”
• “Our greatest joy comes when we dare to begin again.”
  • THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT, LIZ WISEMAN Leader's life and work (August 16, 2013)
• Organizations are replete with under-challenged masses.
• I actually believe that when we are good at our jobs, I think that we begin to secretly resent our jobs,” says Liz. “But actually we are at our happiest when we have a job that’s like a size too big. Now, I don’t recommend people go out and get a job that is two sizes too big. It’s like getting that fit right.”
• “Another essential job of leaders is to size challenges right. To know how to size a challenge to an entire enterprise so that its hard enough that people have to leave the status quo, but just do-able enough so that you can score wins.
  • Building Great Leaders with Liz Wiseman, CEO of The Wiseman Group Mission (August 16, 2013)
• The idea of being a multiplier is that you use all of the intelligence that’s available to you, including your own. When you are so fixated on your own intelligence that the people around don’t get to be smart, people end up under contributing because of that.”
• “The most profound contribution Silicon Valley has made to the workplace is really democratizing the workplace and really letting go of hierarchy and creating irreverence for leadership.”
  • Building Great Leaders with Liz Wiseman, CEO of The Wiseman Group Mission (August 16, 2013)
• You don’t need experience to be able to contribute, in fact, sometimes we are at our best when we don’t.”
• “In the space of leadership, there is every platitude about how we should lead but I’m skeptical of those. So I dig and I look, ‘where are the answers really found? What are the active ingredients? What are the things that really do move the needle?’ versus ‘what is great for a slideshow on this?’”
• “I think the best leaders and the best contributors are competent. They understand their own intelligence, their own capability and what they bring, they bring it fully. But perhaps, they are competent enough that they have gotten over themselves to the point where they understand their own genius but they see the genius of others.”
  • Building Great Leaders with Liz Wiseman, CEO of The Wiseman Group
• The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.
  • GREAT VISION WITHOUT GREAT PEOPLE IS IRRELEVANT’ – 40 QUOTES FROM INDIAN STARTUP JOURNEYS YourStory (June 18, 2018)