People who have measured a high IQ people who are too gifted are likely to be fired.
Firing risk a condition that the most gifted must learn to live with. That means they either learn not to take it too personally when they - again - are fired. Otherwise, they must pay close attention to how they feel at their workplace and whether they really feel seen, recognized and supported by their leader. If not, I would recommend that they by themselves search for another job. Before they volunteered to do so.
1. You are outshining the boss
When gifted creates significant results, the boss's surroundings can start to notice that one is not the boss - it is particularly sharp or the boss may be nervous that some find out that it is you who have them Most pieces to move with in the team. It can easily become a problem for the gifted. It is human that executives with specially gifted teams can feel threatened. Among other things, because the gifted may find solutions that the boss may not be able to figure out, and the boss therefore becomes nervous about whether others will start to doubt his or her legitimacy as a leader of the team. It requires both solid self-esteem, empathy and great spaciousness to lead those specially gifted.
2. You review missing skills
Specially gifted have an unfortunate ability to see if there are managers or team members who have tasks that they may not have the knowledge or skills to solve.
And the worst thing is they can say it high. Either directly or by asking relevant questions that the responsible person can not answer. And although the gifted think it's good to make it clear that something else is needed if the team is to find the best solution, it's not either popular or career-promoting.
3. You indicate mistakes and weaknesses
Whether it's the company's products, processes, organizational structure or something else, it's not smart to be the one who points out the mistakes if you want a long career in a company.
It may be that companies and managers think they want employees who may find mistakes, but they gifted I meet often tell the story of the opposite. By asking questions they are considered unfair and doubts about their involvement in the company. And then they easily end up in bad standing.
4. You rock the boat
Some gifted people just can not help suggesting improvements and new ways to see things.
By being too innovative or proposing too many changes, they asked questions to status quo and thus to the management's way of doing things. And no matter how relevant and gifted objections are, in every company there is a limit to how many new ideas you can do without the manager getting irritated and thinking that it would be a lot more fun to solve the tasks If the gift was not part of the team. At the same time, it irritates the rest of the team if there are some who are too clever.
5. You are way too effective
The staff who quickly and efficiently solve their tasks can easily become subject to envy and irritation at the majority. They risk being frozen - socially and professionally, where other members of the team try to avoid being near the gifted.
In fact, I meet some gifted people who realize that they actually have a part-time job. They can solve their tasks so fast that they could do a lot more, but it would make the rest of the team perceive them as morcas or blisters. Therefore, they invent the ways they can look as if they are busy without doing anything. Their experience is that when they set the barren high, they become unpopular, so either they get on the brake or end up being fired.
6. You do not adjust
Many gifted get absorbed by the task and their zeal to solve it as well as possible. If they find that the rest of the team - and often also the leader - has difficulty keeping up with, or living nicely with lesser solutions, they get frustrated.
It is evident that they start to criticize the team's work and break themselves over different things. In pure impotence. And even though the leader might initially try to get the gifted to come in and realize that the entire team should be involved if the projects are to succeed, many are gifted to be committed to noticing it and that could easily end with a conflict , Which sends the gifted out of the business.
7. You get or take your role as a scapegoat
Many gifted already saw children as children that they ended up - and therefore ended some of them as victims of bullying and social exclusion.
In their eagerness to fit in, this group is willing to go far beyond their own limits to be accepted. This could mean, among other things, that they take responsibility for something that is not really their fault.
Other times, it is envious colleagues who blame them for getting them down with their heads. In particularly grievous cases, it may be the boss who denies a scapegoat who then blames all the things that go wrong until there is a lot of "documented evidence" for a fire.
The tragic thing is that if not the gifted people have worked on their childhood traumas, they still radiate the uncertainty and edema that make them stand out - despite all their efforts to belong to and be accepted by the group. They become pleasere. And then it will be easy for those who are going to sit with the monkey when the political game in the office starts. Also because many in the team perceive them as competitors and may feel intellectually inferior. And it does not matter.
There is another more controversial reason. Smart people can be lazy, they get the job done in less time and spend the rest of their time on their own intellectual pursuits. They use the pareto principle to do more with less making them highly productive but they often work shorter hours. Others in the organisation get jealous and undermine them. I can't remember where i read this but it is apparently researched.
totally agree with you..this was me when i was a child ..now i m a looser
On one hand I agree with your post, on the other, this is EXACTLY the employee I want to hire.
For this reason I'm developing an entirely different ruleset for management that focuses on a team that supports individual unique strengths!
While an intelligent person can learn to work in a "broken" system, I feel it's better to develop ways to improve the system.
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STOPWell written post. I am an employee in a business. Over the time in that business, I have become a person who knows how things work and the people to go to to get the answers.
I am about to move to another state of Australia. I have told the managers that this is in the pipeline, no set date. I know there will be a hole for a short time when I leave.
So true, reasons like this are why Im now currently my own boss and working for myself. I enjoy the ups and downs of it and learning from it. Your wits and talents are better off used on improving yourself than squandering them, bowing for minimum wage.
Sounds great! I hope you doing good.
nice post. Happened to me many times as well (to get fired :p) Followed you and resteemed your post
Thank you, i appreciate it!
So true! Thank you for putting words on something so many people experience silently.
"It's not worth to be humble if nobody would notice it" ;))
I like your posts.