To Celebrate the 4800th Blog Posting: The Thoughts and Quotes of the “Future of CIO” Blog

Blogging is to pursue the digital communication way of envisioning, brainstorming, sharing, and debating. It’s the journey to make the continuous leadership influence and connect the dots for spurring creativity and advocating digital innovation. It’s the time to celebrate the #4800th blog posting of the “Future of CIO.

11 “We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.”

― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business


12 “The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.”

― Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business


13 “Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.”

― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future


14 “You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.”

― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future


15 “Strategic Thinking = Vision + Creativity + Systems Thinking”

― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future


16 “Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.”

― Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity


17 “The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.”

― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It


18 “Businesses need both: “Out of the box” and “shaping the bigger box” type of innovative problem-solving.”

― Pearl Zhu, Problem Solving Master: Frame Problems Systematically and Solve Problem Creatively


“You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.”

― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance


19 “Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.”

― Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity


20 “Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.”

― Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity


21 “Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.”

― Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity

The digital era has the “VUCA” characteristics: Velocity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. We are living in a complex world where inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have a complete knowledge and understanding of any issue individually. Therefore, today’s contemporary digital leaders and professionals must keep learning, adapting, innovating, and practicing on the daily basis for developing differentiated competency.

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