As a professor in academia bridging the corporate consulting space the author has detected a recurrent complaint
from CEOs concerning MBAs and management graduates. The complaint is that the mere competency to
comprehend texts, articles, and subject matter is inadequate. What is deemed paramount and urgent is an ability to
connect pertinent business and industry themes inductively in order to effectively respond to global and industry
drivers. Given a rapid obsolescence of knowledge it is no longer enough that learners comprehend texts, articles,
and concepts. The ability to ‘learn how to learn’, and to process unfamiliar content is the future. `Fluid
intelligence’ is the critical ability to learn new content and consider application into novel far reaching conditions or
contexts. ‘Crystallized intelligence’ is the retrieval or recall, and the routine acquisition of prior content (Cattell