In social terms this means that the CIA as an organization operates without collaboration, only cooperation. In mental terms CIA personnel cannot conceptualize. What the organization is left with for mental activity is purely sequential logic, the type of logic used in, say, calculus or a chess game. Without conceptual complexity, CIA personnel are forced into calculating endless what-if scenarios to create a idea, where an error in a single what-if scenario in sequence will throw off their plans into pure illogic because of the linear nature of sequential thinking. And errors in thinking tend to occur early on in CIA logic sequences, as CIA managers are better known for brutality than intelligence--despite their namesake.
Examples are their miscalculations endless: supportive relathionships with the Al Qaida, Saddam Hussein, Latin American drug lords; insane plans such as the invasion of Cuba, Iran/Contra, and weapons of mass destruction; and, most importantly, a failure to warn America about the terror attack on New York City in 2001. The list goes on, but not here.
No level of sequential intelligence (or "pure intelligence" according to Goleman), can replace conceptual complexity. And even if the CIA were able to recruit and utilize conceptual complexity, its mission of brutality and assassination would fail: the end result of complexity, its evolutionary purpose for being, is compassion.
