“I have met very few really smart people with a lick of common sense.”
I have, but that’s how we’ve built our team (don’t want to get into what I do). That said, they weren’t easy to find! Your book smart/world dumb/people clueless types are definitely far more common.
I have met very few really smart people with a lick of common sense. Not something I recommend in leadership any day.
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I would quarrel with your definition of smart, you seem to mean people with monster IQ scores. IQ only seems to measure a limited part of intelligence. There seems to me to be a whole range of abilities that lie outside the scope of that type of test. What we call common sense is only part of what lies outside it.
I have shared your experience, unfortunately I have a stepson age 33 who has a genius level IQ, holds a computer science degree and lacks the common knowledge and “survivor” capability of a third grade dropout field hand of fifty years ago.