What do you think is more important to career success – people skills or technical skills?
Recent Bell Lab studies indicate your emotional quotient, the EQ, is now as important to your long-term success as your IQ. IQ, the intelligence quotient, was once thought to be the key to career success.
Many are finding that IQ is not a measure of life or work success. Many motivated average or less than average IQ people have excelled in life and work through single focused desire and drive.
What does success have to do with smarts? I know middling intelligent people who’ve made it big. Some wrote best-selling mystery books, designed killer products, or sold real estate. Some of these folks seemed like they belonged in Densa not Mensa, the genius organization.
A critical theme throughout this book is the emphasis on execution over ideas. While breakthrough ideas that can be monetized are important, the deployment of the ideas along with monetization are critical in business.
What’s critical to life and work success? Each of us has one or multiple core competencies or practices. Smart people in life learn to identify, develop, and capitalize on them.
Life Lesson Earned: What does success mean to you? Success is more than intelligence. Understand what it takes to excel in your field or profession.