Pearl Zhu Quotes - Page 3

The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.
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The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.
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Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.
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Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can’t build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust.
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In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.
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It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
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Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.
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Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.
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Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.
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Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
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Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end,” a philosophy and mindset at board level.
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Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.
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The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
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Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.
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An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.
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The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.
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In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.
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The problem of “Command-Control is that you can control people’s behavior, but not their mind.
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The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.
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Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.
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Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
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A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.
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Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.
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The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.
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Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.
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Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.
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Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.
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You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.
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Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.
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Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.
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Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.
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Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.
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Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.
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The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.
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Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
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Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.
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There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.
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Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.
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Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
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At its core, Agile is a mindset.
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Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.
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Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
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The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
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The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.
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Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
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Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
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Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
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Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity.
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The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
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Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.
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Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.
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Vision is a future state of beings.
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Change is a digital continuum.
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Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.
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Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.
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All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
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Judgment and decision making are often considered together.
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An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.
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Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
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Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.
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