The Monthly Communication Brief: Creative Communication July 2019

Effective communication needs to be creative and convey contextual intelligence. The great communicators are the high-quality leaders or professionals who can communicate objectively with strong logic, clarity, and understanding; the great communicators are the great artists who are fluent in creative expression or metaphorical description. Communication is both art and science. How to bridge gaps and improve communication effectiveness.  ...

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The Best “Criticism” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2019

 The flavors of criticism (constructive vs. destructive; open vs. back-biting) well reflect the culture of the organization. "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises...

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Search for Disruptive Innovation to Build Long Term Business Advantages

Managing disruptive innovation demands insightful understanding, patience, persistence, and courage, among other things. Innovation is the core activity of human evolution to changing the environment for making collective progress. In the business setting, innovation is what differentiates the leader from followers. Often, innovation is disruptive and risky. It’s no surprise to know that many organizations avoid risks, the immediate pressure from...

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: How to Set Digital IT Change Agenda July 2019

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders to brainstorm better ways to do things and improve management...

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The Best “Accountability” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2019

Accountability needs to be well embedded in the business culture, for individuals taking responsibility for what they DO and what they SAY! "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership,...

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Digital Playbook vs. Cookbook: What’s your Hand Book to Make a Leap of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation takes a holistic management discipline which is fundamentally an iterative cycle to design, build, scale, and optimize business competency. The purpose of going digital is to make a significant difference in achieving high performance and unlocking the full potential of the business. It is a long journey full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity. Generally speaking, transformation leaders have two jobs - to...

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The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Running IT as Digital Catalyst July 2019

Forward-looking organizations are empowering their IT leaders to lead proactively and take advantage of lightweight digital technology to catalyze digital transformation. Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via...

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Refining Top Talent from Innovative and Progressive Lens

At today’s digital dynamic, top talent are both “experts” and “explorers.” As our society has continually taken an evolutionary journey from agricultural to industrial to digital-techno-logical-social era, the masses of workers have progressed from being farmers, then factory workers to being knowledge workers, where the primary skill needed to conduct work is their brain power. In fact, we are on the advancing journey moving from information scarcity...

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Three Pitfalls of Business Model Innovation

A business model should not only be used for describing, analyzing, and predicting the evolution of a business system, but also provide a framework for managing its performance throughout the business growth life cycle. The business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures the multidimensional value. Look at the business model as the “what” the business is all about or what it will do for customers....

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Interaction Officer” July 2019

The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly. This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to re-imagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. The important thing is...

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The Best “Creative Leadership” Quotes of “Digital Master” to Celebrate #5900 Blog Posting July 2019

Creative Leadership is when you think, act and enable others with a creative spirit that drives positive change. "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how...

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Three Aspects of Building a Digital Savvy Organization

Going digital and running an intensive, effective, and cohesive organization takes dynamic planning, dedicated execution, and holistic digital management disciplines. Digital reality is a flexible blend of the physical and virtual world. Many organizations are moving from doing digital by experimenting with some emerging technologies to going digital by expanding to all dimensions of the business transformation. Organizations have to keep evolving,...

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