a model for developing expert leaders robert j. sternberg [email protected]
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Acknowledgments
• Collaborators: The PACE Center at Yale and external collaborators, especially at USMA West Point
• Funding agencies: Army Research Institute, Institute of Educational Sciences, National Science Foundation
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Goal: To Develop Expert Leaders
Criitcal message: The ends to which leaders apply their knowledge and the thinking processes that act on it, matter!
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Components of Leadership Expertise
• WICS• Wisdom*• Intelligence• Creativity• Synthesized
• *Focus of today’s presentation
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Why WICS?
• You need CREATIVE skills to come up with ideas
• You need ANALYTICAL skills to decide whether ideas are good ideas
• You need PRACTICAL skills to make your ideas functional and to convince others of the value of your ideas
• You need WISDOM to balance the effects of ideas on yourself, others, and institutions in both the short and long terms
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Key Creative Decisions
• Redefine problems• Analyze solutions• Sell solutions• Realize the limitations of
knowledge• Take sensible, principled risks• Overcome obstacles
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Key Creative Decisions
• Attain self-efficacy• Be courageous• Maintain a perspective on oneself• Tolerate ambiguity• Allow time for creativity• Defy the crowd
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Successful Intelligence
• Ability to attain one’s goals in live, within one’s sociocultural context
• By capitalizing on strengths and correction or compensating for weaknesses
• By adapting to, shaping, and selecting environments
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Successful Intelligence
• Through a synthesis of analytical, creative, and practical abilities
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Properties ofPractical Intelligence
• Tacit knowledge: What you need to know that it not explicitly taught and that usually is not even verbalized
• The role of tacit knowledge• Measuring tacit knowledge• Developing tacit knowledge
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Key Findings regardingPractical Intelligence
• Experience matters, but what really matters is how much one learns from it
• Not much related to IQ or g• Not much related to personality or
cognitive styles• Predicts managerial performance
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Key Findings regardingPractical Intelligence
• Experience matters, but what really matters is how much one learns from it
• Not much related to IQ or g• Not much related to personality or
cognitive styles
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Key Findings regardingPractical Intelligence
• Predicts managerial performance singly and incrementally
• Differs somewhat for management versus leadership
• Can be developed
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Why Smart Leaders can be so “Dumb”
• The “what me worry” fallacy• The egocentrism fallacy• The omniscience fallacy• The omnipotence fallacy• The invulnerability fallacy
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Is Intelligence Really Enough for Leadership?
The Machado Question
The Answer: The Flynn Effect
Lessons from The Tragedy of the Commons
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Why Intelligence is not EnoughLeaders can be:• Creatively intelligent (e.g., in generating
novel, strategic targets for terrorist attacks)• Analytically intelligent (e.g., in assessing the
advantages and disadvantages of those targets)
• Practically intelligent (e.g., in delivering the attacks to those targets)
without being wise!
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Why Wisdom is Especially Important in Current TimesHumans have made enormous strides in
technology, including destructive technology, without corresponding advances in their wisdom with regard to the uses of this technology (and perhaps with regard to anything else either)
This mismatch between the development of technology and the lack of development of wisdom places the world at enormous risk!
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Wisdom Means
• Knowing what you know• Knowing what you do not know• Knowing what you can know (at a
given time and place)• Knowing what you cannot know
(at a given time and place)
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Is Wisdom Universal?
Fundamental values (not necessarily beliefs) appear to be largely the same across the world’s great religions and ethical systems, for example, in their stressing, in relations with others:
1. Reciprocity (the Golden Rule)2. Sincerity3. Honesty4. Integrity5. Compassion
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The Balance Theory of WisdomWisdom is1) The application of successful
intelligence2) Toward the attainment of a common
good3) Through a balance among
intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal interests
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The Balance Theory of Wisdom4) Over the short term, and long terms5) Through the mediation of values6) By acting so as to balance adaptation
to, shaping, and selection of environments
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Successful Intelligence
Common GoodG O A L
Adaptation
Extrapersonal
SelectionShaping
Balance of Interests
Intrapersonal Interpersonal
Balance of responses to
environmental context VALUES
Wisdom as Balance
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The Problem with Proverbs
1. They sometimes contradict each other (e.g., “Out of sight, out of mind” and “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”)
2. They sometimes are plain wrong (e.g., “Spare the rod, spoil the child”)
3. The lessons they teach are often a matter of interpretation (e.g., “All’s well that ends well”)
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Conclusions
• WICS provides a useful model for leadership. It begins with wisdom. Without wisdom, there is no expert leadership. Wisdom can and should be developed.