Pearl Zhu Quotes

#1. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.

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#2. Insight is a perception beyond the thought, a multi-dimensional cognizance, and it's the experience to explore oneself, surrounds and beyond.

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#3. Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.

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#4. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.

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#5. All generations need to realize they can learn from each other, to run a successful business and an advanced society.

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#6. The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.

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#7. Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.

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#8. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.

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#9. Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.

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#10. You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.

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#11. Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science.

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#12. Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.

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#13. None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.

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#14. Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.

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#15. Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.

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#16. Every person is unique, put the right people with the right capability to the right position to solve the right problems.

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#17. Broadly speaking, the KPIs of the organization needs to be the KPIs of the IT function.

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#18. Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset.

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#19. The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.

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#20. Creativity is fluid, like the fountainhead from within you, flowing out.

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#21. Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.

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#22. You cannot "disrupt" without incremental innovation being part of the process.

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#23. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.

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#24. A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level.

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#25. Digital IT is all about speed, agility, and flexibility.

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#26. Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.

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#27. Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.

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#28. A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus.

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#29. The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employee' brainpower.

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#30. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

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#31. One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it.

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#32. Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.

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#33. Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.

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#34. Human's mind is the most valuable thing to shape every progress, but also the root cause of all mankind problems.

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#35. Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

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#36. IT more often needs to play a pivotal role in discovering the path to strategy implementation.

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#37. IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.

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#38. Perception is the way one's eyes see the surrounds and one's mind interprets it.

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#39. It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.

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#40. Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change.

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#41. Vision is not fiction; fiction could be a pure imagination; vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.

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#42. Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

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#43. GRC is about collaboration and harmony.

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#44. Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically.

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#45. Anti-digital mindsets are those "status quo" types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.

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#46. From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.

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#47. Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.

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#48. Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

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#49. A wise board accumulates rational wisdom, embraces unconventional wisdom and sharpens system wisdom.

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#50. Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.

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#51. At the core," means," is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.

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#52. With increasing rate of changes, the organization needs to be adapted in such a way that it can respond effectively to the dynamic changes and to the variety in the environment.

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#53. In a broader sense, Systems Thinking is a path to greater awareness.

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#54. Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.

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#55. The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.

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#56. The capability definition is: "the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.

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#57. 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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#58. A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving.

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#59. On a digital continuum, you'd have well-defined processes on one end and loosely defined practices on the other end.

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#60. Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable.

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#61. Today's digital organizations simply just can't stand still. Bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge.

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#62. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

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#63. Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.

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#64. Governance is not about maximization, but about optimization.

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#65. A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.

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#66. Learning agility means to learn, de-learn, and relearn all the times.

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#67. Innovation has to become the philosophy, and part of DNA in an organization.

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#68. Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.

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#69. Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

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#70. Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.

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#71. A "Hybrid" mind with both creativity and analytics can better adapt to a hybrid world.

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#72. The foremost thing is to realize that IT is strategic at board level.

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#73. A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

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#74. The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager.

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#75. A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.

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#76. The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.

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#77. Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.

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#78. Outlier" CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

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#79. Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.

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#80. Being confident means you know who you are, your strength and your limitation.

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#81. Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.

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#82. Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

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#83. Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.

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#84. Having a title only doesn't make one a leader; talented people without a title don't follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.

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#85. Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.

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#86. The future or organizations have amazing digital traits such as customer-centricity, empathy, and participation.

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#87. The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

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#88. Creative leadership can be described as "adaptability meets agility," and "innovation meets principles.

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#89. Digital transformation represents a break with the past, having a high level of impact and complexity.

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#90. Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is.

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#91. Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

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#92. The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.

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#93. We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.

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#94. Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.

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#95. Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

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#96. Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the "switch" is on and the connection is made

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#97. Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal "drive.

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#98. A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.

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#99. Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.

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#100. A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still.

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