IQ & EQ
As time goes by, the definition of intelligence is changing. I read two interesting articles about IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ(emotional intelligence quotient) from psychology today and scientific American’s websites.
Scientific American
This article was written by psychologist and philosopher James Flynn on January 3, 2008.
According to James Flynn’s research, people’s IQ level has improved by three points every decade. This affair has happened all over the world and across any races; moreover, IQ scores are nothing to do with genetics. People can gain high marks culturally-loaded subtest than vocabulary and arithmetic because they have experiences. Flynn also mentioned modern life made people’s way of thinking from concrete to abstract categories. He calls it, “scientific spectacles.”
The Multiple Intelligence of Leaders
This article was written by Ronald E. Riggio on March 27, 2009 and in his article he mentioned three types of intelligences.
Generally, people believe that smart person who has high IQ score can become a leader, but they (he or she) do not always have capable of a leader; especially, scientists, mathematicians and artists. Despite they have special talents in academic or verbal area, most of them do not have leadership as leaders. On the other hand, we can notice that no all leaders have extremely smart in IQ score.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is more important ability than IQ because in some situation, communication ability can build important relationship between leaders and followers. In addition, “charismatic leaders seem to have an extraordinary ability to communicate at the emotional level.”
Third intelligence is the Social intelligence (SQ), which is “the ability to understand social situations, to play social roles, and influence others,” Riggio’s research group indicated that SQ is more important ability as a leader than IQ and EQ, but they also think these three intelligences are great advantages to show leadership.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/4060
