As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.