Good leaders usually develop different types of intelligence. There is an old-fashioned IQ, of course, your IQ. There is EQ, the ratio related to emotional intelligence; this concept has become fashionable in management circles in recent years. And then there’s what Jack Ma calls “LQ.”

“If you want to be respected, you need LQ,” said Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, who spoke today in New York (September 20) to a public packed with CEOs and government leaders on Bloomberg Business Forum Global. “And what is LQ?” The quotient of love, which machines never have. “

In the forum, a class successor to the Clinton Global Initiative with annual waving of the threads, Ma said he believes that human beings will find solutions to the most serious problems facing today’s global development, such as poverty, climate change, and illness, for having confidence in their imagination and their ability to think in machines. But Ma said the answers will not come from people over 50, mainly because older people tend to worry too much.

Pay attention to the young people, urged the audience, because they do not care so much about the future. Instead, they worry that world leaders will not change in the here and now, and will not use technology properly.

Jack Ma claims to be a successful leader — © Business Insider

Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also “pay attention to education,” because we are now teaching children the bad: that machines are better than humans. He believes that this mentality will cost youth jobs in a future dominated by AI and compute.

Instead of encouraging humans to become more like machines, we must build our machines to look more like humans, he suggested.

“A machine has no heart, a machine has no soul and a machine does not have a belief. The human being has the souls, has the belief, has the courage; we are creative, we are demonstrating that we can control the machines, “he said. These are the qualities that will allow people to pursue the globalization that is human.