This makes sense intuitively because the bulk of very high paying jobs are in large companies where responsibilities are diffuse and opportunities to leverage t

This makes sense intuitively because the bulk of very high paying jobs are in large companies where responsibilities are diffuse and opportunities to leverage the brilliance out outlier geniuses are few and far between. Good leadership needs decent cognitive ability to process a high volume of inbound information and maintain a sufficiently accurate mental map of what's happening, but IQ has diminishing returns as the bottleneck really becomes high-bandwidth communication and coordination across a large org structure. In this environment, EQ is more important since a higher IQ only helps local decision making. Cascading those decisions and the reasoning behind them is entirely its own skill, grossly constrained by the attention span and background context of the diverse set of people receiving the message. At the end of the day, understanding and influencing people will get you much further than IQ alone. Combining both with enough experience and domain expertise to sniff out bullshit is the holy grail.