Why Establishing High Expectations Is a Quality of Good LeadershipRegardless of your leadership style, it's important to raise the bar and help your team rise to meet it.
ByRichard Koch•
This story appears in theJanuary 2021issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
Eighteen classes of schoolchildren were tested for their IQs. The results weren't shown to students or parents. Instead, their teachers were simply given a list of which ones scored highest, along with these instructions:Do not treat these students differently than the others.
What happened next may have taken place in a classroom, but it can light a path for our own adultcareers. Here were the results — originally produced in this study in 1965 but repeated many times over: After eight months, all the students were given another IQ test. Among the childrennot之前确认为不同寻常的天赋,有no notable changes. But among the students whohadscored highly before, four-fifths scored at least 10 IQ points higher the second time…and a fifth of them gained 30 points.
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