The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.
~ Pearl Zhu
Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.
The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employee’ brainpower.
The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.
Change Agents have a “learning wheel” in their mind.
Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.
Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.
A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.
Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.
The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.
Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.
Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.
All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.
From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.
The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.
Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what’s being said, but more importantly, what's not being said.
Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.
You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.
Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.
Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.
A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.
Vision is a future state of beings.
The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.
Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.
Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.
Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.
The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.
Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.
An intelligent organization is not about the “cleverness” of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.
Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.
Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.
A positive mind reflects many of the Sun’s characteristics: brightness, nourishment, and vibrance.
Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.
Not every leader is a philosopher, but each leader should cultivate a philosophical mindset.
A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.
The brain is to mind as the eye is to sight.
A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice “de-learning” and “relearning” all the time.
