A comprehensive evaluation of an executive must go beyond simply testing his or her knowledge. We must understand how to include an appropriate measure of intelligence, or there will always be a huge gap in the evaluation of any candidate. The question is how do we build such a test? The first step toward this goal is to understand the difference between knowledge and intelligence.
According to Joseph Fagan, the chair of Case Western Reserve University’s psychology department, the confusion between the two concepts is an important ongoing problem in the field: “My belief is that controversy surrounding the term intelligence has arisen and continues because intelligence has historically ...
