Pearl Zhu Quotes - Page 6

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.
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Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin.
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You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.
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Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.
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Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.
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Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.
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Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself.
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Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance
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Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.
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Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.
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To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction
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Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
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Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.
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A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
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Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.
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It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.
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Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.
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The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.
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The “Boxes” are the walls in your mind.
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Change Management = The human side of change.
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A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
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Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.
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Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.
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Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
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The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
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The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.
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Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
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The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce.
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Change shouldn’t be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.
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It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.
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Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.
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One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.
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Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.
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Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
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Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.
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Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.
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Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.
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The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.
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All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.
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IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.
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Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.
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Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.
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Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity.
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Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.
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The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.
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Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.
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Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.
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Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
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Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
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Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.
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A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.
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Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.
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You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
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Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.
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Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.
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Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.
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The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
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To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.
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Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
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Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.
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