309. Stretch, Don't Stress: How Great Communication Makes Better Leaders

When there's a gap between our intention In our impact. We diminish others. And our communication. My name's Matt Abrahams, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Welcome to ThinkFast.

Talk smart the podcast. Mm-hmm. Today I am super excited to chat with my friend Liz Weissman. Liz is a researcher, executive advisor, and CEO of the Weisman Group. Liz has written a number of best-selling books, including Multipliers, How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Impact Players, and Rookie Smarts.

Liz's work has had a profound impact on leaders around the globe. Welcome, Liz. I am so excited to have our conversation to take what we talk about when we walk around that lake and bring it here so everybody can hear. Thanks for joining. Well, it's always a pleasure and I love our talks. Thank you. Should we get started? Let's go. All right. For listeners who don't know your work. What's the core idea behind being a multiplier or a diminisher? And how did you stumble onto these patterns in the first place? Well, let's start with how I stumbled onto it. You know, right out of college, my first job, I joined Oracle and I found myself In this sea of brilliant people. Everyone was so smart, so amazing. And I noticed as

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