In the Book What is Intelligence … James Flynn gives 5 marks to human brains that many businesses miss.
1. People can enhance their mental abilities given the right environment. Could you imagine what it would be like to work in a setting which optimizes your own ability to take risks, create and refine your best skills at work? 
2. Leaders must transcend the limited notion of fixed intelligence or the g-factor – if a business is to make progress through drawing more intelligence from people. What would it be like to hold a crown over each person’s head and fully expect that person to grow into it?
3. Productivity requires us to treat the brain, individual differences, and social trends as having equal integrity. Would a wider notion of how to gain intellectual headway, open new windows of opportunity to jumpstart your brain?
4. When it comes to intelligence, people can improve on their genetic endowment. Can you imagine on-the-job prompts and triggers to implement the secrets of high-performance minds on a far wider scale?
5. A group’s intelligence can benefit from out-breeding across differences, just as much as intelligence is lost by inbreeding within similarities. What would it be like to work in a place where different people are valued for their insights about fixing on-the-job problems that hold business back?
If your workplace recognized these five intelligence factors alone… what on-the-job IQ gains could you envision within the next month?
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