Social Intelligence

If you want to hire the best person for a job, begin by looking in your organization at the people who now and in the past have held that job, identify the traits/competencies in the top 10% (Competence modeling).
IQ is considered a threshold ability. You need to be smart enough to get into the game however you required some distinguishing competencies to stand out as an innovative leader.
- High internal standards for success (they know how good a thing should be internal. Like to keep score/metric and use that to improve performance). These people love to set challenging goals.
- Impact/Influence - Being able to make persuasive arguments i.e. tell a compelling story in a different direction.
- Conceptual Thinking - Pattern recognition and seeing what matters. Use patterns to identify what to do to make a difference.
- Analysis - Understand the implications of making changes trickling down in other sectors.
- Taking on Challenges without being told to do so.
- Being persistent in tackling problems.
- Liking to operate independently.
Self-Mastery.
- Self Awareness (important for decision making).
- The wisdom of the emotion. The ability to tune in to the subtle feelings.
- Motivation (remembering how good it is going to feel).

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