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THE NEXT IQ The following is an excerpt from
Dr. Arin N. Reeves’s new book, The Next IQ. You can read more about the book at
www.thenextiq.com.
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THE NEXT IQ IS THAT NEXT LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE THAT YOU NEED IN ORDER TO THINK, LEARN, AND LEAD IN THE INCREASINGLY SEAMLESS GLOBAL MAR- KETPLACE OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Whether intelligence refers to individual capacity (intelligence quotient), strategic information (intelligence à la Central Intelligence Agency), best practices (business intelligence), or eff ectiveness in human relationships (emotional intel- ligence), T e Next IQ is about making intelligence more intelligent for the way the world works today. T e events in 2011—from the use of Twitter and
Facebook in the protests in Egypt to the immediate volatil- ity in the global fi nancial markets caused by economics in Greece one day, a natural disaster in Japan another day, and political wrangling in the United States on a diff erent day—have illustrated how the world has indeed become inextricably interconnected in the ways in which we access information, impact each other’s lives, and depend on each other for stability and prosperity. T is interconnectedness has changed the ways in which we respond and react, but it must also change the ways in which we think and learn so that we can lead proactively and not reactively. T e Next IQ introduces you to these new ways of thinking through an integrated exploration of research studies, stories, learning experiences, and tested solutions. In the pages that follow, you will learn that the Next IQ is a shift from intelligence as information to intelligence as actionable insight, and this shift will transform leadership that is rooted in individual expertise to direction and guidance formed from multiple and diverse perspectives. T is next generation of intelligence is about actively
soliciting and then harnessing the power of diverse perspec- tives that may or may not be rooted in specifi c individual education, experience, and/or expertise. T e intelligence
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you need to solve any problem is already available, if you know how to look for it and use it. Your Next IQ is your ability to seek out that intelligence and include it into how you think, learn, and lead. T is book: • Explores how our understandings of intelligence, leader- ship, and inclusion have evolved and intersected to create a new level of intelligence that is critical for leaders in this new millennium.
• Presents the global mindset, CORE (intellectual Courage, intellectual Openness, intellectual Refl ection, and intel- lectual Empathy), and how to cultivate the deliberate intelligence (seeking and including diverse and contrasting points of view) necessary to think, learn, and lead in the 21st century.
• Delves into why we tend to not expand the circle of perspectives that can inform our intelligence even when it seems like common sense to do so.
• Examines why we resist seeking and including diverse and contrasting perspectives even when it is in the best interest of our own intelligence and why leaders in the global marketplace of the 21st century cannot be intelligent if
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