Pearl Zhu Quotes - Page 3

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.
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In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.
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Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.
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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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Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.
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Digital is the age of empathy.
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Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.
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Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
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Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
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The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.
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Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin.
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Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
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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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The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
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Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.
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The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.
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Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.
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The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.
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Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.
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At its core, Agile is a mindset.
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High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.
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Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.
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Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.
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Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.
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The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.
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Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.
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Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.
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Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.
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The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.
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Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.
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A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.
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Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations.
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Judgment and decision making are often considered together.
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Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.
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A peaceful mind is not a matter of doing, but of being.
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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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Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.
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Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.
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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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Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself.
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Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow.
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Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal “drive.
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Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.
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You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.
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Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.
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Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively.
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Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.
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The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
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Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.
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Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.
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Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.
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Anti-digital mindsets are those “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.
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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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Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.
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Setting the right priorities or having superior time management skill means knowing the difference between “must have,” and “nice to have.
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Culture is corporate character.
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Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.
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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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Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.
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Culture should be a business ‘app,’ everyone can apply it daily.
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