What Is It That Impact Players Are Doing?

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i expected there to be a fair number of hot shots and super stars. And what i found was exactly the opposite. Not a single one of em s a prima donna, a bully, a bull in a china shop. I want to work with some one who's so comfortable with their own intelligence and capability that they're over it.

Liz Wiseman uncovers the small, but impactful practices of exceptional performers.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why it’s okay to not be working on what’s important to you

2) The five things impact players do differently

3) The trick to leading without an invitation

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— ABOUT LIZ —

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

She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and StanfordUniversity and is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.

• Liz’s book: Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact (website)

• Liz’s book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (website)

• Liz’s book: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work (website)

• Liz’s Twitter: @LizWiseman

• Liz’s website: TheWisemanGroup.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: Dunning-Kruger effect

• Book: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

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