1.1. INTRODUCTION

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village of types of intelligence to live a full and fulfilling life. There are many ways of being smart—IQ is one way. Another way of being smart, emotional and social intelligence, is at the forefront of much of today's leadership, team, and organization development around the world as this Handbook demonstrates. Others speak of cultural intelligence and spiritual intelligence. Howard Gardner (1999) is a leader in building awareness of multiple forms of intelligence. He has named at least eight different types of intelligence—logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal, and interpersonal—and then lists two others as possibilities: existential ...

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