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Article: Leadership competencies among Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong: the connection with emotional intelligence and successful intelligence.(Leadership and Intelligence)
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- Roeper Review
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- March 22, 2007
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While it is generally believed that intelligence plays an important role in leadership, questions remain as to whether smart individuals are more likely to get to positions of leadership and whether bright individuals make more effective leaders. Early studies starting in the 1930s suggested that intelligence contributes to leadership. Leaders were more intelligent than their followers, and intelligence was consistently associated with perceptions of leadership (see Bass, 1990; Lord, DeVader, & Alliger, 1986). However, the relationship between intelligence and leadership could be anything but straightforward, as these studies generally did not take into consideration ...