Go beyond IQ & EQ. It's time for GQ - gender quotient

THE world has changed dramatically in the last couple of years, along with the way we are seeing the future. How we learn, process, and deliver all depends on how we can process our tangible and intangible qualities.

Dan Goleman, then a columnist for The New York Times, was the first person to popularise the case against intelligence quotient (IQ) as the ultimate measure of success in his best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Matters More Than IQ. He argued, based on the research of Peter Salovey and John Mayer, that IQ accounts for only 20 per cent of a person's success in life. A growing body of evidence has confirmed this hypothesis.

IQ, the most common measure of cognitive intelligence, became the basic standard in Western society of how smart someone is, and how successful they can be. In some ways, it became a kind of cultural obsession. But that was before this whole body of research around emotional quotient (EQ) came to be accepted.