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 Alignment Traps    Intelligence Traps Clipper Performance Solutions Intelligence Traps  Highly intelligent people may turn out to be rather poor thinkers.   They may need as much, or more, training in thinking skills than, other people.  This is an almost complete reversal of the notion that highly intelligent people will automatically be good thinkers.  1)    A highly intelligent person can construct a rational and well-argued case for virtually any point of view.  The more coherent this support for a particular point of view, the less the thinker sees any need actually to explore the situation.  Such a person may then become trapped into a particular view simply because he can support it (see Hypothesis Traps). 2)    Verbal fluency is often mistaken for thinking.  An intelligent person learns this and is tempted to substitute one for the other. 3)    The ego, self-image and peer status of a highly intelligent person are too often based on that intelligence.  From this arises the need to be always right and clever. 4)    The critical use of intelligence is always more immediately satisfying than the constructive use.  To prove someone else wrong gives you instant achievement and superiority.  To agree makes you seem superfluous and a sycophant.  To put forward an idea puts you at the mercy of those on whom you depend for evaluation of the idea.  Therefore, too many brilliant minds are trapped into this negative mode (because it is so alluring). 5)    Highly intelligent minds often seem to prefer the certainty of reactive thinking (solving puzzles, sorting data) where a mass of material is placed before them and they are asked to react to it.  This is called the “Everest effect" since the existence of a tough mountain is sufficient reason for the best climbers to react to it.  In projective thinking, the thinker has to create the context, the concepts, and the objectives.  The thinking has to be expansive and speculative.  Through natural inclination or perhaps early training, the highly intelligent mind seems to prefer the reactive type of thinking.  Real life more usually demands the projective type. 6)    The sheer physical quickness of the highly intelligent mind leads it to jump to conclusions from only a few signals.  The slower mind has to wait longer and take in more signals and may reach a more appropriate conclusion. 7)    The highly intelligent mind seems to prefer
or is encouraged
to place a higher value on cleverness than on wisdom.  This may be because cleverness is more demonstrable.  It is also less dependent on experience (which is why physicists and mathematicians often make their “genius" contributions at an early age). Adapted from DeBono's Thinking Course, Edward DeBono  Clipper Performance SolutionsIt's All About Alignment.®   :: Home :: Healthcare Analytics :: Organization as a System :: Strategic Planning :: Business Process Management (BPM) :: Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Office :: Measure of a Leader :: Alignment Traps :: Why Smart Executives Fail :: Baldrige-LSS-BSC :: Beyond Balanced Scorecard (BSC) :: Lean Six Sigma (LSS) :: Vision-Mission-Values :: Affiliations :: About Us :: Contact Us :: Recommended Books :: © 2007. Created and Maintained by WSI. This site is optimized for Internet Explorer 5 or higher. Please download an updated version now.