SOULAIMA GOURANI INVESTOR, SPEAKER, AUTHOR, ADVISOR, LIFE LEADERSHIP & DESIGN COACH
ARE THERE NO CORRELATION BETWEEN HOW SMART PEOPLE ARE AND HOW SUCCESSFUL THEY CAN BECOME?
Copyrighted by Soulaima Gourani
‘Soft’ skills are in high demand
Do you intend to become a success?
Then you should understand/find your specialized knowledge and it must be combined with the ability to collaborate, motivate, and communicate with other people.
Many less educated and “self-made” people do far better in the business world than you might expect even though their IQ is average.
These people can arouse confidence in others, and they can get others to agree with them. They can sell a good idea and get people to support them, and their ideas and suggestions.
Professionals that are in demand know that emotional intelligence is one of the three strongest and most sought-after competencies.
The other two are integrity and creativity.
One’s Emotional Quotient (EQ) is a measure of how effective one is at understanding themselves and others to adapt to and cope with the immediate surroundings to successfully deal with environmental demands. Employees who possess and continually develop their EQ, integrity, and creativity will increase their value to their managers, companies, and customers. By 2017, three generations will be working together. In 2020, it will be approximately five generations.
This will be the first time that so many generations will be living and working together. It will be an enormous challenge to understand one another and get the best out of one another’s differences, strengths, and challenges.
In many organizations, there is still much ignorance on how to attract, retain, and develop employees of different generations. This is with good reason because there is no single recipe. Age diversity and generational understanding is your, your boss’s, and your company’s next big challenge. It will place huge demands on your overall EQ.
People have become less authoritarian than they were before. The number of younger employees is less than the number of more mature employees. People follow those whom they trust and listen to those who do sensible things. Create something meaningful or significant, as I usually stress out. Your EQ is there—so incredibly central. Use it if you want people to listen and follow you. It may eventually be accepted that a person’s IQ cannot be used to predict a person’s success, either in personal life or in business—a realization that has already made Daniel Goleman an award-winning author.
In my recent work with my book Take Control Over Your Career (http://www.soulaimagourani.dk/product/take-control-of-yourcareer/), I have confirmed that there is no correlation between how smart people are and how successful they can become.
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