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Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact Hardcover – October 19, 2021
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Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions?
In every organization there are Impact Players—those indispensable colleagues who can be counted on in critical situations and who consistently receive high-profile assignments and new opportunities. Whether they are on center stage or behind the scenes, managers know who these top players are, understand their worth, and want more of them on their team. While their impact is obvious, it’s not always clear what actually makes these professionals different from their peers.
InImpact Players, New York Times bestselling author and researcher Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level. Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact, and why—with a little coaching—this mindset is available to everyone who wants to contribute at their highest level.
Based on a study of 170 top contributors, Wiseman identifies the mindsets that prevent otherwise smart, capable people from contributing to their full potential and the five practices that differentiate Impact Players:
- While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done.
- While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.
- While others escalate problems, Impact Players move things across the finish line.
- While others attempt to minimize change, Impact Players are learning and adapting to change.
- While others add to the load, the Impact Players make heavy demands feel lighter.
Wiseman makes clear that these practices—and the right mindset—can help any employee contribute at their fullest and shows leaders how they can raise the level of play for everyone on the team. Impact Players is your playbook for the new workplace.
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Business
- Publication dateOctober 19, 2021
- Dimensions6 x 1.09 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100063063328
- ISBN-13978-0063063327
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“If you’re trying to navigate the new world of work, this book is your GPS. With solid research and sparkling examples, Wiseman shows how to do the things they don’t teach us in school—tackling ambiguous problems, surmounting unforeseen obstacles, hitting moving targets, and traveling beyond the boundaries of your job description to make a real contribution.” — Daniel H. Pink, number one New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human
“If you want to stand out early in your career, this book is required reading. Liz Wiseman highlights the practical, often surprising habits that will help you reach your potential and make your mark.” — Adam Grant, number one New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
“Impact Players will teach you how to have empathy for your boss without kissing up, how to step up and take charge even when you don’t have formal authority, and when to step back and follow, so you can make big things happen for your team and your career.” — Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor and Just Work
“Liz Wiseman has done it again. Impact Players is an engaging and practical guide to how anyone can be more effective at work. In a refreshing departure from the relentless emphasis on leadership that dominates the field, Wiseman digs into the important question of how people make themselves valuable and how they find ways to make an impact when and where it matters most.” — Amy C. Edmondson, professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Fearless Organization
“In building innovative Silicon Valley companies and running US economic diplomacy, I’ve learned that Impact Players are the essential ingredient for growing transformative organizations. And Liz Wiseman’s book gives you the recipe. Impact Players will help you develop the desperately needed next generation of bold, principled, transformational leaders to address our challenges and make sure the world of tomorrow is a better world for all.” — Keith Krach, former United States undersecretary of state, chairman and CEO of DocuSign and Ariba
"Being busy? Easy. Having an impact and making a difference? Well, that’s hard, really hard. Liz Wiseman, in her typically brilliantly, generous, and rigorous way, shows how any of us can change what we do so we too can be an Impact Player. This book is every bit as important and as good as Multipliers. And that book changed the working world.” — Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit
“Impact Players is a gold mine! It is filled with powerful insights and actionable recommendations on how to move beyond being a competent employee to being a truly impactful team player. This should be required reading for individual contributors and leaders alike.” — Tina Seelig, professor and executive director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University
“As we slowly get through the challenges of the global pandemic, we cannot declare victory and go back to normal. We must look further forward to face a future of unprecedented adversity and opportunity. We need more leaders with the right mindset and skills to tackle our biggest and most important challenges—like the climate crisis or technological disruption of jobs, work, industries, and institutions. The world needs fewer people accepting the status quo and more Impact Players who are actively working to create the future they see is possible. This book is a playbook that will help individuals work at a higher level, inspire teams to do great things, and enable organizations to create a culture that fosters growth and to become high-impact organizations.” — Rob Nail, associate founder and former CEO, Singularity University
“Every colleague, teammate, and contributor wants to be the ‘go to,’ high-performing, high-contributing player. Some might call them indispensable. Well, now you have the practical mindsets, strategies, and tools to achieve those goals. It doesn’t take much, but it does take leaders and colleagues who are able to apply simple techniques to extract that extra engagement sitting just below the surface. Liz is a master, and every CHRO/CPO should read this book. If you’re looking to take your organization and the amazing colleagues you have to another level of contribution, this is the guide to help you get them there!” — Eric Hutcherson, chief people and inclusion of?cer, Universal Music Group
"As with all of Wiseman’s books, this is supremely well-researched, structured and filled with relatable stories. If you want to develop the Impact Player mindset and learn their specific practices, or want to have more Impact Players on your team, this book is gold." — Forbes
About the Author
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 in 2019 was recognized as a top leadership thinker 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. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University and is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
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- Publisher : Harper Business (October 19, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0063063328
- ISBN-13 : 978-0063063327
- Item Weight : 1.06 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.09 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #23,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #44 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Books)
- #54 in Workplace Culture (Books)
- #642 in Success Self-Help
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

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 in 2019 was recognized as the top leadership thinker 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. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University and is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, where she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2022
Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions?
The short answer is because those who break through are IMPACT PLAYERS!
The long answer is shared in amazing depth with effective examples and frameworks by Liz Wiseman in her new book: Impact Players.
Liz reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level.
While sharing the mindsets and tactical steps to take to become an Impact Player!
One of my favorite parts is she shares what is causing smart, capable people from contributing to their full potential.
Through all of my self-help/business book reading, I have learned it is powerful to learn what TO DO but it is even more powerful to gain awareness of your habits or mindsets that are holding you back and essentially learn what NOT TO DO.
You will learn all of this in Liz’s book: Impact Players.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 10, 2022
Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions?
The short answer is because those who break through are IMPACT PLAYERS!
The long answer is shared in amazing depth with effective examples and frameworks by Liz Wiseman in her new book: Impact Players.
Liz reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level.
While sharing the mindsets and tactical steps to take to become an Impact Player!
One of my favorite parts is she shares what is causing smart, capable people from contributing to their full potential.
Through all of my self-help/business book reading, I have learned it is powerful to learn what TO DO but it is even more powerful to gain awareness of your habits or mindsets that are holding you back and essentially learn what NOT TO DO.
You will learn all of this in Liz’s book: Impact Players.
In our increasingly complex work environments, organizational excellence doesn’t only come from formal leaders. Everyone in the organization has an impact, for better or worse. We have plenty of management books on leadership behaviors for those in charge. This book focuses on how everyone else impacts the organization, defining the key attributes of individuals who have an outsized positive impact, regardless of their position.
As Wiseman describes in her book, the types of challenges increasingly faced in modern organizations are messy problems, with unclear roles, unclear obstacles, moving targets, and unrelenting demands. Mere contributors see these as a distraction from their job, a reason to look for leadership, an added hassle, a detour from their strengths, and a reason to ask for help. Impact players see these as a chance to be useful, an opportunity to provide leadership, a chance to do it better, a reason to build new capabilities, and a need to work together.
Impact players don’t just do their job—they do the job that’s needed. They don’t just wait for direction—they step up, then step back. They don’t just escalate issues—they overcome obstacles and finish stronger. They don’t just stick to what they know best—they ask and adjust. And they don’t add to the burden by mindlessly asking for help—they work to make work light for others.
The great thing about Wiseman’s research findings is that anyone can have a positive impact—in fact, it’s not even that hard. It’s mainly a matter of being a good team player.
Most people in organizations are not in leadership roles, and almost no leader has had a leadership title from the beginning of their career. True leadership is a set of behaviors that can be practiced from any perch. Those who exemplify the behaviors in this book likely will become formal leaders, but they already are leaders, even if they don’t have a title.
Top reviews from other countries
Lots of the ideas have been explored in other better business and sports leadership books
It could have been a very short read
Sorry Liz.
This book reveals the secret of how to become an impact player in your organization as most people struggle and get stuck going through the motions.We mostly like to go to organizations where we get applause or appreciation from people or leaders, but at the same time we forget that we lose touch with reality and avoid situations that expose our weaknesses but those who have courage and face the reality become impact player. The author has neatly shared all the recipes in a very easy to understand language.
In the book Author describes the types of challenges that are increasingly being faced in modern organisations, unclear problems, unclear roles, unclear constraints, rising targets and incredible demands and how we can overcome these difficulties to become impact players.
🍁𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲🍁
Based on a study of 170 top professionals, Wiseman identifies the mindsets that prevent otherwise smart, capable people from living up to their full potential, and the five practices that differentiate Impact Players:
While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done.
• While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.
Players are learning and adapting to change.
• While others add to the load, Impact Players make heavy demands feel lighter.
Wiseman makes clear that these practices-and the right mindset-can help any employee contribute their best and shows leaders how they can raise the level of play for everyone on the team.
🍁𝗠𝘆 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄🍁
It's a must read for today's leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and it's also a guide for parents, teachers and workplace advisers.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on January 5, 2023
This book reveals the secret of how to become an impact player in your organization as most people struggle and get stuck going through the motions.We mostly like to go to organizations where we get applause or appreciation from people or leaders, but at the same time we forget that we lose touch with reality and avoid situations that expose our weaknesses but those who have courage and face the reality become impact player. The author has neatly shared all the recipes in a very easy to understand language.
In the book Author describes the types of challenges that are increasingly being faced in modern organisations, unclear problems, unclear roles, unclear constraints, rising targets and incredible demands and how we can overcome these difficulties to become impact players.
🍁𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲🍁
Based on a study of 170 top professionals, Wiseman identifies the mindsets that prevent otherwise smart, capable people from living up to their full potential, and the five practices that differentiate Impact Players:
While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done.
• While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.
Players are learning and adapting to change.
• While others add to the load, Impact Players make heavy demands feel lighter.
Wiseman makes clear that these practices-and the right mindset-can help any employee contribute their best and shows leaders how they can raise the level of play for everyone on the team.
🍁𝗠𝘆 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄🍁
It's a must read for today's leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and it's also a guide for parents, teachers and workplace advisers.
If you are an employee that thrives more, read this. You might be an impact player and you might even be on the wrong team.
If you are a manager, you want to read this.
If you are a business owner (or an aspiring one) and you have time for only one book this week (or month), pick this one. So much information, you won't regret it.















