New Book!

The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools

Multipliers are genius makers.

We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the Diminishers of talent and capability.

On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go on; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire teachers and administrators to stretch themselves and surpass expectations. These leaders use their smarts to make everyone around them smarter and more capable. These leaders are Multipliers. The educational system needs intelligence Multipliers right now especially when leaders must do more with less.

The Book

The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius in our Schools is an invitation to leaders across education to operate as Multipliers accessing and channeling the intelligence, talent, and creativity of the people around them. The book is a sequel to Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (HarperCollins 2010), which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, was featured on U.S. National Public Radio and in Harvard Business Review and continues to rank in the top 50 management books on Amazon.com.

In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman, leadership coach Elise Foster, and veteran principal Lois Allen team up to offer compelling research showing the overwhelmingly positive and exponential effect on schools – getting more done without increasing the number of teachers and resources.

Taking a deep dive with more than 100 of education’s best leaders, the authors explore the five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers and how these leaders attract and develop talent, as well as harness new ideas and energy to drive educational innovation. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed they are skills that every educator can learn to use – even when steeped in lifelong Diminisher settings.

What could you and your school accomplish if you could mobilize all the energy and intelligence around you? The Multiplier Effect will show you the possibilities and how to lead like a Multiplier.

The Authors

Liz Wiseman is president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley. She is a researcher, best-selling author and executive advisor who teaches leaders around the world. She is the former vice president of Oracle University. Liz holds a master’s in organizational behavior and a bachelor’s in business management from Brigham Young University.

Lois Allen has 30 years experience in public education. She is a former teacher, special education coordinator, assistant principal, and principal (elementary and middle school). She holds a bachelor’s in speech pathology and audiology and a master’s in special education from San Jose State University.

Elise Foster teaches leadership to business and educational leaders. She has served as a faculty adviser and coached students at Indiana University (Kelley School of Business) and as a management fellow at Harvard University. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s in engineering from Virginia Tech and a master’s in Education from Harvard University.

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“The Leaders Forum is the vehicle for making the strategy in Latin America a reality. It is a clear ingredient of our success and a key part of the innovation, teamwork & vision that drives the Latin American region.”
Sebastian Gunningham SVP, Amazon.Com
“Liz’s approach of combining leadership training with cross functional problem solving is winning the battle for minds and culture, which is the hardest thing to do in businesses today.”
Ray Lane, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Former President Oracle Corporation
“Liz’s experience in helping global teams tackle tough, complex issues has put her at the top of the list for Executive Coaching resources, a super blend of human touch and real world action plans.”
John Hall Senior Vice President, Oracle University
“I couldn’t put down Multipliers on the plane ride home. I highly recommend it for all especially those aspiring to or actually occupying significant leadership positions. A word of caution, this book may be unsettling if you are honest with yourself. Read it with an open mind and allow it to help you reflect on what kind of leader you have been. Should you find like many of us, that you are an accidental Diminisher, follow its rather simple and insightful steps toward becoming a Multiplier and unleashing the genius in others. Many of its tenants are universally applicable even to our highly hierarchical, leader-centric organization.”
Patrick Count, Commander, U.S. Navy
“Thank you yet again for being every bit of amazing as I imagined. Your talk not only inspired our audience, but your shared wisdom was a common topic even among my coworkers. In turn, we each went home and talked to our families about these ideas.”
Diane Ngo, Youth Programs Coordinator, Stanford University
“CCI has been fortunate to work with Liz in the design and delivery of many strategic initiatives. Her subtle but deliberate method of building leadership development into the work of solving complex business challenges has stimulated a new level of thinking and understanding among our board and staff team. Through our work with her we have come to understand that leadership excellence is not achieved through the passive participation in traditional learning activities, but instead it is the critical by-product of doing meaningful and difficult work. “And even better – doing hard work has never been so much fun! It is a treat to enhance our abilities and strengthen our organization in partnership with someone we respect and enjoy so much.”
Shannon Carter CEO, CCI
“In over thirty years of evaluating executives it was clear to me that some achieved much more than others, but it wasn’t always clear why. Wiseman and McKeown present a fresh and compelling analysis of how Multipliers create value while others destroy it.”
Tom Friel, former CEO and Chairman of the Board, Heidrick & Struggles
“Your team has added phenomenal contribution to building a strong collaborative culture in our buiness organization. Thank you for showing us the right way for which we struggled for more than a decade to find on our own.”
Anil V. Parab General Manager, Larsen & Toubro
“Multipliers challenges us to imagine a dramatically more productive future for our organizations—one that requires letting go of some of the very behaviors that helped get us to the top.”
Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO
“The evaluations of our conference earlier in the month have been coming in to the VisionServe office, and Roxann Mayros, our CEO, tells me that every aspect of the conference exceeded attendee’s expectations. It appears to be the best conference ever, in fact. Rob did a terrific job, and everyone was so caught up in the concept of Multiplier/Diminisher – they’ll be thinking about that for quite a while.”
Pam Brandin, Executive Director, Vista Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired

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