Intelligence and Creativity

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Chapter 9

• Intelligence and Creativity

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Chapter Goals

• The goal of this chapter is to look at the
  research that has been done on the relationship
  between intelligence and leadership, as well as
  the relationship between leadership and
  creativity.

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Intelligence

• Intelligence is a persons all-around
  effectiveness in activities directed by thought.
• Intelligence is relatively difficult to change.
• Intelligence can be and is modified through
  education and experience.

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Theories assessing the nature of intelligence

• Intelligence is a unitary ability.
• Intelligence involves a collection of related
  mental abilities.
• Intelligence is based more on the process by
  which people do complex work rather than the
  number of mental abilities.

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The unitary view

• The unitary view is founded on findings early in
  this century that individuals scores on
  different types of intelligence were all
  positively correlated a person doing well on a
  vocabulary test was likely to do well on a memory
  or numeric reasoning test and vice versa.

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The multiple intelligences view

• The multiple intelligences view is based on
  common observations of people and finds that
  every person possesses linguistic, musical,
  logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic,
  intrapersonal, and interpersonal intelligence.

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Dark-side Personality Traits

• Dark-side personality traits are irritating or
  counterproductive behavioral tendencies which
  interfere with a leaders ability to form
  cohesive teams and cause followers to exert less
  effort towards goal accomplishment.

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Personality Traits

• Preferences distinguish one personality from
  another, based on four basic dimensions
• extraversion-and-introversion
• sensing-and-intuition
• thinking-and-feeling
• judging-and-perceiving