Not well known, but relevant to a lot of the stuff about Google's hiring in particular (eg I wasted a lot of time explaining to people 2 years ago or so that Google's HR guy saying that intelligence didn't matter to their hiring decisions != intelligence doesn't matter to job performance (it does, as has been demonstrated many times), because Google was already selecting for <1% of the population.)
Intelligence SHOULD have mattered when that HR guy was hired.
Perhaps he means it in the Carol Dweck sense, that how we view our failures is what determines our success. IQ tests only measure what we've learned already, not our attitude towards learning.
Not well known, but relevant to a lot of the stuff about Google's hiring in particular (eg I wasted a lot of time explaining to people 2 years ago or so that Google's HR guy saying that intelligence didn't matter to their hiring decisions != intelligence doesn't matter to job performance (it does, as has been demonstrated many times), because Google was already selecting for <1% of the population.)