Pearl Zhu Quotes - Page 4

Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.
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Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.
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Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.
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Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information.
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Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.
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Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
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Culture is the organization’s fingerprint.
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Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
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A child-like mind is full of imagination.
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When there is fear, there is no trust.
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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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The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.
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An adaptive mind has better learning capability.
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When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.
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Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
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Decisions always refer to the future.
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It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
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Creative leadership can be described as “adaptability meets agility,” and “innovation meets principles.
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Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
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Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.
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Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.
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Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.
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All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.
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Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.
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Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.
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Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.
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An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.
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An innovative mind allows “the creative flow” to open up for information abundance.
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Out of Box” is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.
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Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
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To be creative you must set aside both certainty and doubt.
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The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
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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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A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.
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The “Boxes” are the walls in your mind.
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The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.
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You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.
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The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.
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The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
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Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.
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The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
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Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.
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An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.
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Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
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Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
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Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
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Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
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The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
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Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.
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You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.
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Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.
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Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.
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Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.
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The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.
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Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.
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Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.
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Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.
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Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.
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Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities.
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A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.
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