In Search of Intelligence

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In Search of Intelligence

• Dickman and Stanford - 2

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How is leadership connected to the brain?...And
how set connections might be optimized?

• Comprehensive relationship based on the capacity
  for intelligence
• Brain Purpose
• To make decisions about how to enhance the
  reproductive success of its host body
• Genetically programmed directive to survive and
  reproduce
• Brain did not exist till they were
  needed?evolution and biological adaptations
• The business of the brain internal adjustments
  to monitor and process information from the
  internal and external environment
• This is done beyond our conscious
  awareness?capacity for interpreting, organizing,
  and applying information?intelligence/executive
  skills

In t r Ig u e
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• Intelligence
• What you use when you dont know what to
  doPiaget
• Triarchy compositionSternberg
• Adapt to environment
• Cope with novel situations
• Process information effectively
• Guessing wellBarlow
• Slipping the bonds of instinct and generating
  novel solutions to a problem Gould and Gould
• Dimensions of neural efficiency, experiential
  knowledge and reflective thinkingPerkins
• Biopsychological potential to process information
  that can be activated in cultural setting to
  solve problems or create products that are of
  value to the cultureGardner
• No one definition of intelligence?it has evolved
  from Binet

1905
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So, intelligence is
Collective attributes of brain
acquisition and application
that contribute to

• of knowledge in diverse and novel situations
• Goldman (1998)
• intelligence is one of the basic senses
• capacity to solve problems
• meet challenges
• and create valued products

Interplay of people and relationships culture
and roles within an organi-zation
Individuals and systems
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• Sunset example as a metaphor to seeing
  intelligence in the 21st. Century
• Proof that intelligence is brain and leadership
• fMRI, PET, EEG
• We are at a new stage of investigation a period
  of enlightenment
• the mind once stretch never goes back to its
  original form?plasticity
• Getting a grip
• Daunting sea of knowledge?judicial engagement
  with the sources that are at hand?destillation of
  essential understanding

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• In order to really understand the relationship
  between intelligence, brain and leadership we
  must understand the nature of intelligence
• Physiological?platform of
• knowledge
• Social?provokes and refines
• knowledge
• Emotional?arouses, focuses and
• motivates the acquisition of knowledge
• Constructive?understands and organizes
• information in order to apply knowledge
• Reflective?directs acquisition and
• application of knowlege
• Dispositional?determines the effectiveness
• and efficiency of the use of knowledge

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• The process of knowledge about intelligence
• Expert?knowledge that is original, refined
• extensive or profound
• Translator?summation and interpretation of
• expert knowledge
• Common?knowledge that is known by most
• people
• Intuitive?understanding something without
• reasoning or being taught (BLINK)
• Essential?knowledge for the specific purpose
• of engagement
• Summary?knowledge of major points