From the course: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Blinkist Summary)
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Push the team to be a challenger
From the course: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Blinkist Summary)
Push the team to be a challenger
- [Narrator] Blink number four. The challenger pushes their team to new limits without barking orders. When Matt McCauley practiced pole vault at college, he kept a bar nearby that was always set at the world record, so he knew where his goal was. McCauley had a similar approach when he became CEO of the children's retailer Gymboree. By always aiming high, it helped him increase the company's share price fivefold in just four years, from $0.69 per share to $3.21. Matt McCauley's leadership approach is that of a challenger, and this one comes with three distinct practices of its own. First, avoid telling someone where to go or what to do. Instead, point people in a specific direction where they can develop their own ideas. Irene Fisher is the director of University of Utah's Bennion Center for community activism. Rather than explaining where help was needed, she took people to visit poor neighborhoods to see the conditions…
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Contents
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Diminishers and multipliers2m 19s
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Bring teams together and maximize talent2m 52s
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Create an inspiring workplace2m 36s
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Push the team to be a challenger1m 57s
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Open and inclusive decision-making2m 27s
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Empower your team2m 28s
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Avoid being an accidental diminisher1m 53s
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Defend against the diminisher boss2m 17s
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Transform into a multiplier2m 40s
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