Multipliers

Key takeaways

• Leaders Divide Into Two Distinct Types Based on Their Effect on Team Intelligence and Capability
• Multipliers Create Genuine Intellectual Challenge Rather Than Providing All Answers
• Multipliers Extend Genuine Trust and Ownership Rather Than Retaining Excessive Control
• Multipliers Actively Debate Rigorously Before Deciding Rather Than Suppressing Disagreement
• Consistently Apply Multiplier Practices to Transform Your Own Leadership Effect on Team Capability

• Ask one question today instead of giving the answer, to stretch a team member's thinking
• Notice if you're a 'diminisher' in one interaction today, and consciously multiply instead

Final takeaway

The authors' closing invitation: consistently apply Multiplier practices — creating genuine intellectual challenge, extending appropriate trust, and encouraging rigorous debate — to transform your own leadership's effect on team intelligence and capability, examining and consciously shifting away from any Diminisher patterns your own leadership might currently exhibit.