The Art and Science of Pattern Language

A Pattern Language is an attempt to express the deeper wisdom of what brings aliveness within a particular field of human endeavor.Pattern has a few meanings, it’s usually about repeating artistic or decorative design: a paisley pattern; or a natural or accidental arrangement or sequence. A plan, diagram, or model to be followed in making things. A consistent, characteristic form, style, or method. Or a composite of traits or features characteristic...

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Leadership Vision: Do you have one?

Leadership vision is built on leaders’ authenticity. Leadership is about the future, leadership vision is not just about zooming in, but also stepping into the future, to bridge the gap between today and tomorrow; local and global, industrial age and digital era, the mind and the behavior. More specifically, what is leadership vision, do you have one? Leadership vision is built on leaders’ authenticity: Leadership is fundamentally about telling...

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The Golden Rules of Analytics

Analytics is the means to end, not the end. Data Analytics is a golden mine every organization is digging now. However, analytics is both art and science at the same time, perhaps not so many businesses understand these golden rules of analytics, shall you follow them? Question is more important than answers. Accurately defining the problem is half the game won. The analysis has to tell a story people understand and is relative to the problem. Follow...

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A Board Beyond Compliance

"Compliance" is just a subset of "governance" and not the other way around. Corporate governance is the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled. Compliance is the management discipline of designing and implementing effective steps to ensure that the company actually complies with the laws and regulations relating to its operations. There is a strong compliance element to corporate governance but corporate governance is...

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Critical thinking vs. debate

Critical thinking, like systems thinking, allows for more expansive thinking. Critical thinking is the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion; while the debate is a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints (dictionary.com). Critical thinking vs. debate: how to leverage them in decision making...

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What Would you Consider to be Key Features of a Successful Portfolio Management Tool

Either managing portfolio or other activities, build a framework which allows movement along the process path. Organizations today have to manage the large quantity of projects in order to beat competition and delight customers. In reality, many businesses still manage portfolio decisions on good old excel spreadsheets where each item carries importance based on a selection of criteria, new revenue, strategic fit, etc. Progressively, with many management...

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Are your Future Leaders Prepared?

The leadership is complex; the future of leaders have to deal with opposing views, cultures, constraints and competitions. Business competition is fierce at digital age. Successful companies need to grow and innovate; investing in and developing the next generation of leaders and talent is one of the best ways to do that. Businesses, are your future leaders prepared though? Leadership development is strategic imperative: Leadership development,...

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What’s your PoV of Digital Paradigm Shift?

We are at the dawn of the digital transformation - the change from one era to another is often called, "PARADIGM SHIFT."  We are experiencing the major societal TRANSFORMATION from the industrial machine age to the post-industrial information/ knowledge /insight/ digital age. These changes and transformations are reshaping our thinking and recasting the way we view ourselves, the systems of which we are the part, the environments in which...

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Creativity vs. Consciousness

While an average adult gets about 70,000 random thoughts in a day, the brain can maintain only one thought at the same moment.  All living beings are creative and we, humans, like to think that we are the most creative beings of all, not too sure about that. But speaking of humans, our creativity fluctuates, seems to disappear at times, get blocked, or sparkle in abundance and flow out of us some other times. So what’s the correlation...

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Fixed vs. Growth Minds

Human’s mind is the most valuable thing to shape every progress, but also the root cause of all mankind problems. At the traditional organizational setting, people are hired to do their job with compliance; and managers are hired to manage projects or people with control. However, businesses large or small are faced with rapid changes and digital dynamic. Such static management practice based on the fixed mindset is no longer sufficient to adapt...

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