The concept of intelligence, as many prior researchers
have suggested, is primarily tied to biological and cultural effectors. Intelligence
refers to intellectual functioning. Organizations with specificity to those
individuals within the ecosystem need to recognize and stand guard to support
the notion of adaptability. In this sense, the workforce can have the ability
to move to more efficient and effective actions to drive higher performance.
Learning to be flexible and work in an open, cohesive manner is a means to
adaptive intelligence. In fact, adopting a “look, listen and learn” mentality
enables individuals within an organization to the adapt to changing environment
real-time. Both adoption of novel approaches as well as adaptability to these
approaches and development of a certain skill sets are both critical success
factors in the drive to transformative organizational change. Learning by doing
provides experience to employ in situations that may require adaption along
with the ability to shape a particular environment. Adaptive intelligence at
the micro-level and within a business setting provides organizations with the opportunity
to have an engaged workforce who can continually deliver exceptional and
collaborative performance for the greater good. Focusing on the individual
mindset, organizations can build best in class teams who can adapt to the
changing demands of the marketplace. Employ skills that are practical, agile
and can be socialized are hallmarks of adaptive intelligence. A blend of IQ and
emotional intelligence creates a soundness to an organization’s well-being and
sustainability. Elements of critical thinking, as well as group think to
synergize broad ideas and lastly, creativity all can be identified as rudiments
within adaptive intelligence. Harnessing this phenomenon can provide
organizations with a strong and clear path to greatness. The purpose of this article
is to build upon the extraordinary prior work, especially of Robert Sternberg,
and study the phenomena of adaptive intelligence within the context of business
organizational ecosystems.
