The quality of your thinking decides your professionalism and leadership profundity.
At the siloed industrial era, leadership efficiency is often dependent on the hierarchical level of authority and brute force style of command and control. It’s often about how loud you can speak or how hard you can push. However, digital means information flow, people-centricity, innovation, and transparency. Hence, digital leadership must go deeper, to dive into the depth of leadership profundity and practice the power of pull, to lead more effortlessly.

In-depth knowledge: Knowledge is power! Knowledge is information in use, and it’s information that supports the decision-making process. Knowledge is an expression of understanding relating information and experience accumulated over time, about known facts and past events. However, knowledge is not static, the knowledge life cycle is significantly shortened at the digital era, lots of commodity knowledge are just clicks away, and therefore, knowledge is also the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. It means knowledge has to be updated periodically due to the increasing speed of change and the hyper-connected digital new normal. Learning knowledge is just the first step, to dive deeper, or move up, one should connect dots at interdisciplinary domains, and co-create new knowledge to solve the emergent problems. Therefore, knowledgeable leaders or professionals shouldn’t have a “graduated attitude,” to stop learning, or only be interested in providing answers to fulfill egos. In fact, they need to keep updating their mind which perhaps still filled with the outdated knowledge they learned decades ago via formal education years or based on conventional wisdom filled in their childhood. And they should learn how to ask open questions and gain collective wisdom, and see the big picture into which the knowledge fits.
Cognitive understanding: Knowledge by itself is nothing if you do not understand how to apply it and make it useful. Cognitive understanding means people acquire knowledge through thinking and sensing. When we explore the mental process of acquiring new knowledge through thought, experience, and senses, the cognition involves exploring varieties of meanings/thoughts and abandoning old and establishing new relations. Too often people take the easy path, think and work at a superficial level rather than spend the time to understand what is going on underneath. Insight is an understanding of cause and effect based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario. Cognition as a perception, sensation, and insight, enables you to identify the root cause of a problem or the core issues of a situation which leads to cognitive understanding and resolution.

Knowledge is power. Digital leaders and professionals can practice expert power based on their in-depth knowledge, cognitive understanding, and multidimensional thinking skills to enforce the power, but not abuse the power, and amplify their leadership influence via profundity.
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