NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
“ We need to embrace a new paradigm of thoughts and I think we need to embrace the kinds of thinking brought forth by quantum leadership ”
STEVEN BURRELL CIO & VP FOR IT NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
the observation of light as both wave and particle at the sub-atomic level , known as wave-particle duality .
“ Quantum leadership is the ability to view the world through many different facets and situations from all sides concurrently , and to see that with all these opposing thoughts there is a lot of duality . To stay with the quantum metaphor , I think to see beyond the visible light cast by today ' s complexity and chaos , quantum leadership draws upon three of our human intelligences .”
The first of these is cognitive intelligence ( IQ ), the familiar metric by which the efficacy of people and decision-making are often measured . The second is emotional intelligence ( EQ ), a better understood dimension of innate thinking which has become a key talking point for leaders in their pursuit to create people-first workplace cultures . The third is spiritual intelligence ( SQ ), distinct from theological thought and related to the understanding that profit , performance , attraction of skilled people and other organisational objectives must follow the fundamentals of doing good for people and wider society . It is a complex philosophy , Burrell admits , but breaking down the complex into the easily consumable is quantum leadership in motion . “ Simplifying the vision in terms that everyone can understand is a practical type of thing
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