It isn’t how much you know that matters. What matters is how much access you have to what other people know. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use.
Finding people’s native genius and then labeling it is a direct approach to drawing more intelligence from them.
Jim Barks-dale, former CEO of Netscape, was well known for saying, “If you don’t have any facts, we’ll just use my opinion.”
Multipliers have a core belief that people are smart and will figure things out.