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iseman, Liz and Greg McKeown. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2010.
It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use.
The Diminisher is an Empire Builder. The Multiplier is a Talent Magnet.
The Diminisher is a Tyrant. The Multiplier is a Liberator.
The Diminisher is a Know-It-All. The Multiplier is a Challenger.
The Diminisher is a Decision Maker. The Multiplier is a Debate Maker.
The Diminisher is a Micromanager. The Multiplier is an Investor.
Would your people describe you as someone who recognizes talented people, draws them in, and utilizes them at their fullest? Would they say they have grown more around you than any other manager they have worked for? Or would they describe you as someone who pulled them into your organization not as a talent to be developed, but more as a resource to be deployed and then left to languish?