results are what you might expect: CEOs are, on average, smarter than most peopl

https://hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful-ceos-just-lucky—“Their results are what you might expect: CEOs are, on average, smarter than most people. But they’re hardly exceptional. The median CEO of a large firm in Sweden scored in the top 17% in “cognitive ability,”—-

Of course. Pareto is Everywhere. The CEO organizes the voluntary organization of production. This would mean that he would generally fall into the top 20% OF HIS FIELD.

—“CEOs of large firms scored higher on this measure than CEOs of small firms and family firms. But large firm CEOs didn’t score much higher than other professionals, like doctors, lawyers, or engineers.”—

Again, one organizes talent that one CAN organize. Higher IQ’s usually have trouble bridging two standard deviations of difference, and would not likely SORT into groups consisting of dissimilar folk.