Multipliers: How the best leaders make everyone smarter

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This is one of the most challenging business books that I have read; not because it is complex or difficult to understand, but it makes you question everything you’ve ever done as a leader!  It is not for the faint hearted, or those that don’t want to look in the mirror and ask yourself “Are you a Multiplier or a Diminisher?”

Multipliers gives you practical and easy to understand ways to get two times more from your resources by turning most intelligent resources into intelligence Multipliers. Through the research, Wiseman identifies 5 disciplines of a Multiplier and the opposite behaviours witnessed from Diminishers.

Multipliers: Talent Magnets, Liberators, Challengers, Debate Makers, Investors

Diminishers: Empire Builders, Tyrants, The Know-it-All, Decision Makers, Micro Managers

Every element of the Multiplier best practices comes with clear examples of how you can change behaviour.  This is profound read – it certainly impacted me as much as the leadership classics by Kenneth Blanchard ‘Situational Leadership’ and Covey’s own ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’.   I believe this will also stand the test of time, is highly relevant to the current economic climate and more importantly, totally applicable to the Middle East region. If you are a business owner, CEO, or in a leadership role, this is a must read book.  You need to know if you’re a Multiplier or a Diminisher and you need to know how to change your assumptions and behaviours to build the genius in others.  Only once you’ve understood yourself, can you begin asking the rest of your team to change.  Imagine if you could get twice as much productivity out of half of your team … what would it do to their worth and the worth of your business?

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