America desperately needs an ultra-smart president—an individual who securely possesses both the thinking capacity and adaptable personality to come to grips with accelerating and unpredictable changes and problems in complex, often chaotic, turbulent environments.
A brilliant president will know how to spontaneously think and tackle—verbally, quantitatively, and spatially—to get the most out of emergent trends, resolve seemingly intractable contradictions, discern insight from perplexity, and lead in designing unifying futures through a strong moral character with decisiveness and direction. A smart “president” should be “wired-in” to idea spaces “between-the-lines” of our uncertain times and with nimbleness, connectivity, inventiveness, and courage to come up with new ideas rather than hoping that answers will fortuitously arrive from partisan directives.
