Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 25

Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.
Pearl Zhu
Change Management = The human side of change.
Pearl Zhu
Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
Pearl Zhu
With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
Pearl Zhu
Change is a digital continuum.
Pearl Zhu
Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.
Pearl Zhu
Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
Pearl Zhu
Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.
Pearl Zhu
The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employee’ brainpower.
Pearl Zhu
Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
Pearl Zhu
The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.
Pearl Zhu
The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.
Pearl Zhu
For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.
Pearl Zhu
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.
Pearl Zhu
Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.
Pearl Zhu
You don’t need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.
Pearl Zhu
It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
Pearl Zhu
Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult.
Pearl Zhu
It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.
Pearl Zhu
The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.
Pearl Zhu
The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability.
Pearl Zhu
We might not return from this voyage. None of us. We might all lay down our lives when we reach the end, and not ever know whether our sacrifice changed anything for the better.”“It will be for the better,” Magiano replies. “We cannot just die, not without trying. Not without fighting.”“Do you really believe that?” I ask. “Why are we doing this, anyway? To preserve my own life, and yours—but what has the world ever done for us in order to deserve our sacrifice?”Magiano’s brows furrow for a moment, then he leans in closer. “We exist because this world exists. It’s a responsibility of ours, whether or not anyone will remember it.” He nods at me. “And they will. Because we will return and make sure of it.
Marie Lu
Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.
Pearl Zhu
Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
Pearl Zhu
It’s probably better and more accessible to measure change readiness rather than change progress.
Pearl Zhu
Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
Pearl Zhu
The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.
Pearl Zhu
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.
Pearl Zhu
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.
Pearl Zhu
Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.
Pearl Zhu
Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.
Pearl Zhu
Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible.
Pearl Zhu
If you make change part of your operation routine and your DNA, and then change becomes easier to deal with, and even become an ongoing core business capability.
Pearl Zhu
To make change sustain, the important thing is “end-to-end” performance.
Pearl Zhu
Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
The future or organizations have amazing digital traits such as customer-centricity, empathy, and participation.
Pearl Zhu
Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.
Pearl Zhu
Nobody can change who you are, except for you.
Jean Kwok
Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.
Shan Sa
In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.
Shan Sa
She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a cat or dog, but not a woman," was her constant murmur as she shuffled around the house, oozing apology with every step.
Jung Chang
Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to her family," which was condemned as a "bourgeois habit," and had to see less and less of her own mother.
Jung Chang
In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.
Weina Dai Randel
A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
Liu Cixin
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Lisa See
From that day on I clearly understood that the kingdom of God can never mix with politics. The ultimate, stated aim of Marxist teaching is the complete eradication of all religion. The pure bride of Christ can never be controlled by an atheistic government or led by men who hate God!
Brother Yun
They were endowed with the qualities of youth- they were rebellious, fearless, eager to fight for a 'just cause', thirsty for adventure and action. They were also irresponsible, ignorant, and easy to manipulate- and prone to violence. Only they could give Mao the immense force that he needed to terrorize the society.
Jung Chang
I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.
Yiyun Li
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Zhuangzi
Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.
Pearl Zhu
There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.
Ken Liu
Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever more repressive.
Ma Boyong
To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.
Gene Luen Yang
freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted
Bei Dao
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Marie Lu
How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?
Lisa See
You don't have to, Henry. In here, I think my dream is big enough for the both of us.
Jamie Ford
Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output.
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