Dr. Robert Jeffrey Sternberg psychologist and psychometrician, is known for his research into human intelligence, creativity, thinking styles, learning disabilities and leadership. He uses a “WICS” model for creating leaders.
WICS is an acronym for “wisdom, intelligence, creativity synthesized.”
The basic idea behind it is that leadership is not something a person is born with — so is not an inherited trait.
Leadership is something decide to do — fro better or for worse in competence or incompetence.
The oxygen of effective leadership is Emotional Intelligence.
Leadership is a series of decisions that build on a combination–a synthesis–of wisdom, intelligence and creativity.
There are two key, differentiable elements that are really important.
The first is skills and the other is attitude.
To be an effective leader Dr. Sternberg says, I have to know how to do those two “things.”
I think that even more important is the abilty and willingness to
(a) teach those skills to others;
(b) find someone to do that if the leader is not able and/or willing;
(c) identify what skills people need & find the people who can teach them.
Dr Sternberg says, “attitude is at least as important or more important. The way you think about problems and your attitude toward those problems is as essential as your ability to solve them.”
I think “activated attitude” as seen in competent behaviours applied to problems, issues or projects is the stuff that separates so-so leaders from great leaders.
Great leaders find ways to bring out the ordinary Genius in people.
From Dr. Jim Sellner, PhD.,DipC. — working with Zoomers & Super Zoomers business leaders so they can experience more possibilities for experiencing more joy, health and a sense of abundance. Dr. Jim is author of Leadership for Einstein’s: Bringing Out the Genius in People While Becoming Great Yourself.
He co-leads Brains’ Trusts Peer Groups for CEO’s and executives in Vancouver, BC.
Dr Jim is author of “The Phallic Imperative: Why Men Are Hard to Get Along With!?”
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