By itself, a high IQ does not guarantee that you will stand out and rise above everyone else.
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Winning this battle will require more than inventiveness and high IQ.
It may be backlit by the illumination of extremely high IQ, yes, but it is at base a matter of will, not mind.
In a third international study of 515 senior executives, emotional intelligence was a better predictor of success than either relevant previous experience or high IQ.
The biggest problem companies like Microsoft face is that they have very high IQ in solving problems, but very low IQ in identifying and understanding the problems.
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Hence his venomous anger at postwar England's "sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous" upper middle classes, among whom the right accent was far more valuable than a high IQ.
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Those with a high IQ who still prefer a government job because of its womb-like benefits may still be hired, but should not also be attracted by the higher pay.
To the extent that their spouses come with them instead of them marrying a native they are surely more likely than average to have high IQ children who generate positive peer effects, and high-skilled spouses who also contribute to the economy through a job of their own or household production.
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Another involved the collection of DNA samples from high-IQ individuals from the U.S. and other countries, including those with extremely high SAT scores, and those with a doctorate in physics or math from an elite university.
Bill Gates has built a powerhouse around software for microprocessors, written and packaged by aggressive, high-IQ people.
The company is composed of Myhrvold and a clutch of high-IQ friends who think up inventions and apply for patents.
The Hong Kong researchers hope to crack the problem by comparing the genomes of super-high-IQ individuals with the genomes of people drawn from the general population.
When it came time to buy computers to test the search algorithms floating inside their high-IQ brains, Page and Brin did what any money strapped students would do.
Microsoft remains in the 99th percentile of high-IQ companies.
Manson posted an IQ of 121 in 1972, which is average to high average of intellectual functioning, Sequeira said.
Attending an elite undergraduate or graduate institution requires a certain test score level, which according to Charles Murray in his book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, translates into an IQ score well within the top 1% if the institution has high enough median scores.
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Moreover, according to the Crowdfund IQ report, over 58% of the U.S. population has a high interest in potentially making an investment via equity crowdfunding platforms in startups.
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