

Liz Wiseman on Building a Team of Multipliers
18 snips Sep 15, 2020
Liz Wiseman, Founder and CEO of the Wiseman Group and renowned leadership expert, shares her insights on building effective teams. She discusses her transformative experiences at Oracle and how empowering leaders can enhance workplace culture. Wiseman highlights the difference between 'multipliers' who uplift their teams and 'diminishers' who stifle growth. She emphasizes the importance of curiosity, humor, and learning from mistakes in leadership, illustrating her points with a humorous anecdote about a wedding dress mishap.
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Liz's Early Oracle Journey
- Liz Wiseman joined Oracle young and inexperienced but thrived in a high-growth, non-hierarchical environment.
- She was frequently challenged with jobs she had no prior experience doing and learned by doing.
Trust Enables Growth
- Great leaders trust others with hard tasks and don't rescue them immediately.
- This encourages growth by creating space where people step up and figure things out on their own.
Diminishers Waste Talent
- Diminishing leaders underutilize their team's intelligence, treating talent as objects to display rather than leverage.
- This wastes resources and frustrates capable employees who feel underused and exhausted.