Liz Wiseman Quotes

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.

“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.

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.”

Once leaders create a great place to work, they expect people to do great work."

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.”

The fundamental job of leadership is to ask the right questions. Let your team find the answers.”

Their strength lies in understanding that problems are constantly lurking around corners," They then become masters of improvisation and redirection.

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?'

The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.

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.

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.

Organizations are replete with under-challenged masses.

You don’t need experience to be able to contribute, in fact, sometimes we are at our best when we don’t.”

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.”

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.”