Leaders of the Whole part 1

"Since 1918, when World War I introduced the use of IQ test in a massive army of the candidates the United States. IQ scores average in the United States has increased 24 points and also tercata similar increase in advanced countries worldwide. Reasons for the increase ranging between better nutrition, more children who had a high level of education completed. The existence of computer games and puzzles game that helps children possess skills to the more intensive small number of family members, who generally berkolerasi with high IQ scores in children. From the results of large-scale survey of teachers and parents indicates that children's generation is now more often experiencing emotional problems than the previous generation. Children are now grown in the Average lonely and depressed, more angry easily and more difficult to manage, more nervous and tend to panic, more impulsive and aggressive "said Daniel Goleman.
Around the early 1970s, student demonstrate on the montaint high global war against Vietnam, a librarian at a U.S. office. Information Agency abroad to receive bad news. A group of students threaten to burn the libraries. Pulitzer librarian has some friends among the students who issued the threat. The reaction initially appear naive or incompetent or both. He invited the group to use the library for some of their meetings. He also invites United States citizens that the country concerned to attend to listen to them, then there was a dialogue rather than confrontation. Librarian are demonstrating their skills as a negotiator, or agents of peace, which is very powerful, is able to read the situation and it is one which is the ability of emotional intelligence (EQ).
According to Danah Venus and Ian Marshall, IQ and EQ separately or together, not enough to explain the overall complexity of human intelligence and also yaan life and imaginary. Computers have a high IQ, because you know the rules and follow them without one. Many animals have a high EQ, because it can identify the typical situations and know how to respond to the situation appropriately. However, computer and the animals did not ask why we have rules or situation, or whether the rules or situations that can be changed or improved. Leaders need spiritual intelligence (SQ), which can make their IQ and EQ. Intelligence and spiritual intelligence is to face and solve the issue of the meaning and values, namely to put the intelligence and behavior, a leader in the context of the broader meaning and rich, to assess intelligence that the action or the way someone's life has meaning compared with other people.
Spritual values of the common spiritual, among others: truth, honesty, simplicity, concern, cooperation, freedom, peace, love, understanding, good charity, responsibility, sense of grace, integrity, confidence, probity, modesty, loyalty, alertness, dignity, courage, unity, gratitude, humor, perseverance, patience, justice, equality, balance, sincere, wisdom, and fortitude.
oleh:M. Suyanto