Thought Leadership Articles
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Looking to a Brighter Future
By Vernon Bryce, Kenexa
This article looks at how the evolution of multiple intelligence theory now promises much for workplace productivity and organizational competitiveness. With World economic pressures bearing down, could the theory’s links to talent assessment and organization wide talent audits, carried out through the web, play a role in creating a brighter future?
It is, of course, not a new concept that there is more to life than ‘academic intelligence’ as the benchmark of people’s abilities, and that the concept of ‘general intelligence’ that lay behind ‘IQ’ began at the beginning of the last century.
It is more surprising, however, that it took until comparatively recent times—following revolutionary work by Howard Gardner, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Project Zero, published in 1983—that IQ theory began to be superseded by Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (MI).