Pearl Zhu Quotes

Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.
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Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.
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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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To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.
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Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.
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The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.
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Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.
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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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No decision in the world outlives the time, place, and person’s constituents on the basis of which it was made.
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All our finite decisions are taken in a very transient emotional stage.
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Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.
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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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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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The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.
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The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.
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We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.
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The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.
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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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Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.
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The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.
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High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.
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Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.
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The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.
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Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.
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Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.
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Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.
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The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.
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Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.
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Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.
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A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.
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A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.
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Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.
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The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.
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If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.
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Agility within and of itself is a strategy.
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A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.
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The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
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Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.
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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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The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
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Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.
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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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The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.
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Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.
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The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.
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The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.
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A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.
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Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.
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Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.
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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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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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A benchmarking mind is an “interpreter” mind which can bridge the gaps.
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One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.
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You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.
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Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.
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It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.
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Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.
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Unprofessionalism damages the business reputation and tarnishes the trust of society.
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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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Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.
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