Off-Topic But Interesting: Leadership and Intelligence
This is hardly a surprising result. Leaders need to be certain of themselves; the people they lead need to know exactly where they’re being taken, and fully believe in their leader’s position. High IQ people, generally, have no capacity or interest in pulling this off.
Craig,
Well, certainly not Lord Bertram Russel (the title is hereditary, he was the 3rd Earl Russel, a tittle he never renounced) who was a mass of contradictions, in nearly every aspect of his life.
He was a truly British eccentric and although he has over the years attracted a army of leftist apologists and revisionist historians who try to redefine his activities and life in a positive light, there is probably no other nation which would have tolerated such a contradictory individual in the twentieth century except Great Britain.