I wouldn’t say so, from what I hear about my Son’s school if anything it’s going the other way.
IQ tests are of course deeply flawed, with no fixed criteria of testing but we’ll forget that for a bit.
In the ‘World of Education’ In my experience the kids who did really well in school weren’t the bright ones, not in real terms anyway – they had good attention spans, and good memories.
Fast forward to the ‘world of work’ and I see people with good ‘Emotional Intelligence’ succeed, which is odd because the more emotionally intelligent people are, the more robotic they seem, if you can set aside your feelings, and use other people’s feelings to convince to share your goals you’ll do very well.
In the ‘world of business’ I’m fairly sure intelligence is a complete hindrance, most intelligent people won’t take the risks people do in business, they understand the odds too well. No, blind unwavering determination is what you need – even the best ones like the ‘Dragons’ and Lord Suge belief utterly and completely that every move they made was right, even the wrong ones and all you need to do to succeed it to keep getting up after your failures and luck plays no part in it.