Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman

THE LAZY WAY STRATEGY Use the right principles and tools and attain maximum results with just the right amount of effort. The Accelerators 1. Work the Extremes: Assess your leadership practices and then focus your development on the two extremes: 1) bring up your lowest low and 2) take your highest high to the next level. 2. Start with the Assumptions: Adopt the assumptions of a Multiplier and allow the behavior and practices to naturally follow. If I can find someone’s genius, I can put them to work. People’s best thinking must be given, not taken. People get smarter by being challenged. With enough minds, we can figure it out. People are smart and will figure things out. 3. Take a 30-Day Multiplier Challenge: Pick one practice within one discipline, and work it for thirty days. Sustaining Momentum 1. Build it layer by layer. 2. Stay with it for a year. 3. Build a community.