It's possible that people have an innate tendency to be resentful of leaders who are smarter than them, but there may be other explanations. Perhaps high IQ te

It's possible that people have an innate tendency to be resentful of leaders who are smarter than them, but there may be other explanations. Perhaps high IQ test results correlate with some negative trait that wasn't captured. Perhaps it's unusually difficult for some reason to simultaneously be successful in business, well liked by employees, and really smart. Perhaps the population of business leaders contains an abnormally high proportion of highly intelligent sociopaths. Perhaps high IQ correlates with wealth, and employees tend to be resentful of business leaders who earn, say, 100x or 1000x what they earn. Perhaps on average high IQ leaders were more likely to have goals that contradicted the goals of the workers (e.g. maximize profit at all costs vs. make this a great place to work).