Rookie Smarts, Liz Wiseman
Rookie Smarts, Liz Wiseman
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Rookie Smarts
Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

Author: Liz Wiseman

Narrator: Liz Wiseman

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/14/2014

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Wall Street Journal BestsellerIs it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time? Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges? With the right mindset—with Rookie Smarts—you can.In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Careers stall, innovation stops, and strategies grow stale. Being new, naïve, and even clueless can be an asset. For today’s knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery.In this essential guide, leadership expert Liz Wiseman explains how to reclaim and cultivate this curious, flexible, youthful mindset called Rookie Smarts. She argues that the most successful rookies are hunter-gatherers—alert and seeking, cautious but quick like firewalkers, and hungry and relentless like pioneers. Most importantly, she identifies a breed of leaders she refers to as “perpetual rookies.” Despite years of experience, they retain their rookie smarts, thinking and operating with the mindsets and practices of these high-performing rookies.Rookie Smarts addresses the questions every experienced professional faces: “Will my knowledge and skills become obsolete and irrelevant? Will a young, inexperienced newcomer upend my company or me? How can I keep up?” The answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when to think like a rookie.Rookie Smarts isn’t just for professionals seeking personal renewal; it is an indispensible resource for all leaders who must ensure their workforces remains vital and competitive.

About Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world.  She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers:  How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect:  Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts:  Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.  She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.  Some of her recent clients include:  Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter.  Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world.   She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals.  A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University.  Liz holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management and a Masters of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on December 02, 2014

As someone who is struggling through a career field change, I picked this book (unabridged audio) on a long drive across the Southern Plains. I hoped that it would tell me that my struggles would soon settle and that my career would take off. Was I disappointed. I the news I received, not the book.......more

Goodreads review by Adriyana on February 22, 2023

This book would be more useful for conservative and old executives in order to change their culture and give a chance to rookies. Although most of the tips are common knowledge, the book concentrates on an ideal rookie profile and doesn’t discuss the failures, and when things don’t work out, when pe......more

Goodreads review by Charmetria on May 07, 2022

So many gems for me in my leadership journey and so many to take back to my organization. Excellent read!......more

Goodreads review by James on January 22, 2022

Not knowing perceived limits enables rookies to score more often, and it also allows them to score bigger gains ― Liz Wiseman I started running in 1998. I use that term loosely as it involved a lot of walking and did not necessarily look like running to people passing by…walking their cats and pushin......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on July 24, 2016

This is an excellent book if you will experience anything new in your professional life, whether it be a new assignment, new project, new duties, a new position with a new company or even a new career. Some of it seemed redundant, but it became much clearer in the second half of the book. The differ......more