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The Paradoxes of Work Intelligence

The Paradoxes of Work Intelligence

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This is NOT just about gender equality! Sure, it starts as such: "The more we look into the cognitive basis of team and business performance, the more we learn about the strengths of women relative to men..." But look: "... Teams with higher average I.Q.s didn’t score much higher on our collective intelligence tasks than did teams with lower average I.Q.s... What makes teams work is the presence of people .... who possess what is called ‘theory of mind’: they are adept at creating and maintaining a sense of what is on the minds of others in the group...the same effects hold when the team is not working face to face... if you’d like to increase the performance of teams... add people who are socially sensitive" I'll let you guess which gender is generally more socially sensitive. Another fascinating difference: "...When stressed, women will decrease risk-taking, while men will increase it... The key factor is how men and women react to cortisol, a hormone produced by stress: in women, it increases decision-making performance, but not so in men." - Women, and The Paradoxes of Work Intelligence — Work Futures — Medium

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