clever

I am reading  Clever: Leading your smartest most creative people by Goffee and Jones.

The book identifies 9 common characteristics of “clever” people and I thought these were especially interesting:

1.  Their cleverness is central to their identity.
For clever people what they “do” is rooted deep in their being and not just a job.

6.  They are not impressed by nor do they want to be led by corporate hierarchy.
I can see this as a characteristic, but I am not sure it’s a “good” one or one we should accept. Authority is biblical.

9.  They wont thank leaders.
I think that this is a symptom of #6.  The writers basically say that clever people are so clever that they would not know leadership if it slapped them in the face.  So they wont think that they owe leaders a thanks because they see leaders as a part of taht hierchy.

Interesting book so far.  May blog some more later on it.