'Want to live simply, don't be a leader': Lesson for those who are leaders from Jack Ma

Most of us want to be a multi-talented leader. But this is a position that is not simple and is often "lonely" alone.

Alibaba boss Jack Ma said that to become a successful leader and loved by the employees, we definitely need to have love. This view has been very successful for many leaders in businesses including Alexa von Tobel - founder and CEO of LearnVest - a reputable personal finance website. Here's what this female leader learned from the highlights of Alibaba boss.

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1. Leaders need to know how to love

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According to Jack Ma, to be able to become a great leader, we need to achieve 3 qualities. The first is IQ - smart index, the second is EQ - emotional index and finally LQ - love index. According to Jack Ma, LQ is also extremely important, but it is rarely mentioned to leaders. That's why many leaders are often lonely and unsuccessful, because they rarely show their LQ index, making colleagues feel distant from them.

In fact, being a leader is a "servant" for his employees, who ensure they have the necessary conditions to develop, complete the job and understand where employees need to go.

2. Being a leader is not an interesting thing

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Although Jack Ma is a leader, president of a large enterprise with tens of thousands of employees, although his appearance is very simple and runs his business quite smoothly, his life is not like that. He once stated: "Want a simple life, don't be a leader".

A leader will have to sacrifice a lot, not only for work but also for their personal life. Their work is always faced with pressure, must solve work at all times, everywhere and almost no time for themselves and their families, even if they are attending a birthday party of a loved one .

In the early days of establishing LearnVest, Alexa was the one who directly cleaned up her office, because she would feel very anxious when someone visited her office and it was so messy. Alexa once said that "The leader must be a pioneer, always ready to roll up his sleeves to clean the house, if necessary". However, such a thing is not always crossed out in a leader's plan.

3. Leaders must know "to spread fire" to employees

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When it comes to solving really difficult problems, Jack Ma once said a pretty good and famous sentence: "Today is difficult. Tomorrow will be worse. The next day will definitely be fine. Although So, most of them can't get through tomorrow. "

Therefore, as a leader you must not break the guy before the difficulties, you must have faith and enthusiasm to be able to overcome, continue to spread enthusiasm to your employees to help them overcome those The hardest part of the job when encountered: pursuing goals, overcoming challenges to reach a beautiful tomorrow.

A leader must be far-sighted, broad-minded to recognize the difficulties and problems that his employees are facing; and will be the analyst, assess all issues in many different aspects to give the most appropriate answer, making employees admire.

Not only that, the leaders must also balance and motivate their employees to work, devote themselves, dare to confront difficulties that they have not done before. Of course, this is not easy.

Alexa shared, she is still on her way to conquer as a leader and discoverer: What is the lesson to become a leader? "I definitely want to learn, learn more," wrote Alexa.

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