Leadership Intelligence in the modern world of terror (part 2)

It is just a few short months and we have another terrorist attack in the heart of Europe. Unfortunately "the terrorist threat from ISIS may be about to get worse. Much worse" (according to Karl Vick at least). Even if ISIS is "defeated" militarily, there is the ongoing problem of disaffected people around the world feeling that ISIS gives them a cause and "reason" to act. Things have got even more serious as ISIS and its followers have been trying to source nuclear material. Even if they cannot make a nuclear bomb the risks are very significant. Substances such as plutonium are incredibly toxic and if a dirty bomb (an explosive with radioactive material around it) was blown up in a capital city like New York, it could make a square mile of the central business district uninhabitable for decades.

We want leaders to think wisely the clue in the name of our species: homo sapiens (meaning 'wise ones'). Too often it is far too simplistic, and a good example was Donald Trump's comment after the attack in Paris in November 2015, which was loudly cheered by his American audience. He suggested that if France had the same gun laws as the USA then a number of the patrons would have been armed and might have killed the terrorists first.

Let's just imagine for a moment that say 10 civilians armed with pistols could have banded together and killed all these heavily armed terorrist immediately, saving 130 lives. Presumably, with the same gun laws and gun culture comes the same rate of gun death. Currently 2000 people die from gunshots annually in France. If they had the same rate of death by gunshots as the USA then this would rise to about 7000 per year. So changing the gun laws in the hope of saving 130 people from a terrorist attack means killing about 5000 more! I hope our leaders can come up with much better thinking than that.

There are four fundamental human intelligences and we are all naturally high in a couple and naturally low in the other two.  IQ and EQ are well known, but there are also the strategic/creative and tactical intelligences. All are developable if we know what to do and all have their place.

However, strategic/creative intelligence is the way to go to the next level of thinking to deal with the most pressing and complex problems, and using an IQ or tactical thinking approach instead is bound to fail.

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