Liz Wiseman (Author) - The Power of Not Knowing

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Author and leadership educator Liz Wiseman shares why cultivating a "rookie mindset" is an advantage in a rapidly changing world. Wiseman presents insights from her books, Rookie Smarts and Multipliers, including frameworks and techniques for how entrepreneurs, leaders and employees can embrace a life of constant learning and build a passion for multiplying the genius of those around them.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.2	So it is my pleasure to introduce Liz.
0:22.3	Liz is an author.
0:24.8	You see the books here,
0:25.8	multipliers and Rookie Smarts.
0:28.1	She's one of the most sought-after speakers
0:33.0	regarding the topic of leadership.
0:35.7	And if you haven't noticed,
0:37.3	that's part of what the seminar is entitled,
0:40.3	entrepreneurial leadership.
0:42.3	We celebrate the fact that we're,
0:45.3	entrepreneurial leadership can be looked at in many, from many different viewpoints.
0:49.3	As the entrepreneur, the founder of companies, as the venture capitalists that support them,
0:55.0	as the CEOs that sometimes maybe end up running the company, as academics that study it,
1:01.0	all kinds of advantage points. And we love to create a program throughout the year that looks
1:09.0	at it from those different perspectives. On
1:11.2	occasion we have an author. They've got to be very very special for us to want to
1:15.1	have them in this seminar series. So Liz is. So let's welcome Liz to Stanford.
1:21.4	Thank you. So I want to have a conversation with everyone here,
1:32.3	and I'm going to ask everyone to participate in this conversation
1:36.3	about intelligence and the use of intelligence inside of our organizations.
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