Pearl Zhu Quotes - Page 6

The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.
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Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.
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Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
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Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.
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Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.
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Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.
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A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.
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Vision is a future state of beings.
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The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.
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Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.
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Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.
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You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.
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The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.
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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.
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Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
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Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.
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From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.
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All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.
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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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Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.
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The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.
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Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.
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Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.
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A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.
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Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.
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Change Agents have a “learning wheel” in their mind.
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Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.
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Asking big “WHY” question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.
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Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.
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Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.
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Change Management = The human side of change.
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Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
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With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
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Change is a digital continuum.
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Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.
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The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.
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Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
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Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.
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The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employee’ brainpower.
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Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
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The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.
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The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.
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For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.
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The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce.
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Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.
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Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.
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You don’t need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.
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It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
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Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult.
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It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.
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The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.
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The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability.
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Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.
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Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
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It’s probably better and more accessible to measure change readiness rather than change progress.
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Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
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The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.
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To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.
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Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.
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