Highly intelligent people tend to make good progress in the workplace and are seen as fit for leadership roles: overall, smarter is usually associated with success. But if you examine the situation more closely, as does new research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, you find evidence that too much intelligence can harm leadership effectiveness. Too clever for your own good? Let’s look at the research.
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Implying IQ tests actually represent one’s “intelligence”.
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Well, they do give a general pointer as to how mentally functional and/or adjusted a person is, although many factors can play in, and not all are taken into account on IQ tests.
For the topic: My experience is that people with high IQs usually seem to have poor social skills, often being obvlivious to it because they’re so used to being smart in other aspects.
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When Jeff Bezos talks I listen. Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon (and the world’s richest person), doesn’t care about IQ, GPA, or what school a person graduated from. He hires people who are intuitively right more often than not. The ability to understand emotion and empower people. If a person likes their boss they will go the extra mile, if not they won’t.
Amazon stock (AMZN) closed on Friday at $1,125.35 per share. I guess it’s working.
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That is obviously false. Even though these people he hires may not have the highest level of IQ, they certainly still have above average IQ. To hire a person that is stupid is detrimental to any organization other than those of retail.
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To do good in my field you had to be smart, have a good attitude, and be able to review your own work. Bam if someone fits that criteria I’d hire them
Sometimes, IQ has nothing to do with strategical thinking, understanding of marketing or artistic capabilities.
People with low IQ may be very successful in their fields despite not having scored an impressive mark in some tests, also it doesn’t automatically makes them stupid.
That’s sort of a given when you’re talking about intelligence, since intelligence is more general than specific mental abilities. It is even more obvious because IQ is an estimation of intelligence, and far from an exact measurement. But the assumption that intelligence generally makes you better at the things you mentioned is not radical. When it comes to this research, the explanation for the results should make it clear why too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
The title of the article is very sensationalistic. It’s actually not even correct. This research simply shows a correlation between very high IQs and less-than-optimal leadership abilities. It is not a convincing argument that having too much intelligence is bad for your leadership abilities and it can not be used to explain why such a potential causal link might exist. There are too many extraneous variables here. It’s just a pointer for future research. I can’t tell from the article if it builds on previous experimental research or not.
I’ll be King of the Lemmings!
I could tell you why…
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I can’t stand the suspense! Do tell!
Why do people with high iq have to do anything good? What I’ve seen is that excellent public speaking skills is a much better measure
They say its hard to see the forrest from the trees… but its infinitely more difficult to keep up with specific earth trees or forrests from mars…
lol thats the best way i could put it and it not be stupid long…
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Well said, little one. To see the trees from Mars, you would need a palantír. Haroom.
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The problem I have with these entrepreneurs saying you don’t need an education or go to a top school is they all went to Stanford or an Ivy and Jeff bezos went to princeton. So why didn’t they just go to a state school or skip education all together?
But there is no explanation, at least not yet. although I guess it will have something to do with the idea that the modern IQ tests are flawed a bit.
I haven’t said it was, I have purposely left a “Sometimes” before my statement.
All I said was that IQ test doesn’t ‘measure’ these abilities, I’ve done the whole thing and I’m speaking from experience, got a neat score despite being psychotic.
I don’t think that “Intelligence” is a meaningful concept. It might be useful for filtering overall low functioning minds, but I still believe that even some of these minds might contribute more significant contributions in their fields than minds that have scored higher on the IQ scale.
If you want to talk about aptitude, I think I am well suited to my environment for the time being. Who knows, even if something changes, I could be well suited for that too.
I don’t think so. IQ scores are generally accepted as valid measures of intelligence.
Yes, I know what you said. I said that, theoretically, IQ should be positively correlated with these abilities. That doesn’t mean a high IQ will always go together with these abilities, but since it does measure intelligence (which is pretty much beyond any reasonable doubt at this point), and these abilities presumably would benefit from intelligence, they should correlate.
Intelligence is a meaningful concept. It’s not a perfect predictor of academic, work or social performance, but then it was never meant to be that. There is a lot of disagreement about what constitutes intelligence, but one definition is how well you learn and how well you use your knowledge. That is definitely something that varies from person to person and is somewhat stable over time, and that’s why intelligence is a meaningful concept.
So…knowledge is what you know…intelligence is how well you learn and utilize said knowledge…and wisdom is what you perceive when gazing into the abyss?
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All I care about is depth of understanding and raw speed