Digital Leadership Quotes

#1. Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.

Pearl Zhu

#2. The Board must set a tone for digital leadership.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#4. Digital creates the new demand and dimension for global leadership mind-set.

Pearl Zhu

#5. 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.

Pearl Zhu

#6. The "artificial gap" between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.

Pearl Zhu

#7. Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

Laura Lang

#8. CIOs may not be the subject matter expert of all IT domains, but they should understand technology enough to ensure they have a keen sense of judgment on the priorities for IT investment.

Pearl Zhu

#9. All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#11. The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

Bob Sorge

#12. Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

Anthony Sampson

#13. The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance.

Pearl Zhu

#14. 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.

Pearl Zhu

#15. A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Renzo Piano

#16. Marketing without sales is dead.

Richie Norton

#17. The CIO must now wear many hats, and see the forest through the trees.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#19. To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#20. From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.

Pearl Zhu

#21. Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both "sense and sensitivity" to understand people and lead effortlessly.

Pearl Zhu

#22. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.

Pearl Zhu

#23. A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively.

Pearl Zhu

#24. Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.

Pearl Zhu

#25. She'd been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she'd only traveled through halfway.

Cornelia Funke

#26. A CIO needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical" or "creative.

Pearl Zhu

#27. The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu