You Can't Be Effective When You're Too Smart For Your Own Good

Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Fast Company

By Patty Azzarello

"Congratulations, smartypants, you've got the highest IQ in the room—too bad it'll make you a pain to work with," says Patty Azzarello in Fast Company. She says if you have a high IQ you can be 100% right and 0% effective. For this problem, she gives six techniques for dealing when your genius just gets in the way.

 

What do you do when your IQ gets in the way?