The Monthly “Leadership Master” Book Tuning: Leadership Sophistication and Maturity Aug. 2020

Digital leadership is sophisticated because there are many variables in it, and there is a delicate mix of expertise, interpersonal skills, along with a lot of different attributes. Leadership is complex yet simple: Complex in that there are so many traits and characteristics that are considered when evaluating a leader. Simplicity in that the substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about the future and change; direction and dedication;...

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“Data” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2020

Within the tasks associated with the element of the business decisions, data is fluid in the sense that it is constantly added to or subtracted to depend on the task."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...

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Change Management Focal Point and Accomplishment

Change is inevitable. Make sure the executive team first understands what it needs to change for shaping the future of business and build change competency to realize it. We live in a world in which change is the norm with rapid speed. Change itself has become unpredictable and evolutionary. Either individually or collectively, if we don't embrace it, accept it, roll with it or make it happen, we're not going to be successful. The purpose...

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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: Running Digital Organization as a Balanced System Aug. 2020

Digital management is a hybrid and holistic discipline with mixed management styles for managing everything that is necessary to get people to adopt new ways of learning and working.The purpose of the book “Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for...

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“Examine” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2020

A critical thinking strategist can initiate open conversations, see the two sides of the coin, adapt to business dynamics, examine a situation and understand the problem from different angles."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...

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Uncertainty Management to Fill Opportunity Gap

 By pursuing abundant opportunities via managing uncertainty well, we are shifting from the knowledge economy to the creative economy.The emerging digital era has many dimensions and demonstrates very characteristics such as options, sharing, empathy, and personalization. To deal with the new normal, knowledge is no doubt important but more than that is complete awareness of what is happening in the business context. Once you do that, you use...

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The Monthly Digital Principles/Practices Summary: Principles to Shape Digital View, Talent, and Business Aug. 2020

Forward-thinking leaders can follow system principles, shift their business perception from a linear system to an adaptive “purposeful” system with hyper-connected and interdependent nature.A digital workplace is all about people-centricity, empathy, innovation, agility, and high-level business maturity. Digital organizations are always on, inter-dependent and hyper-connected, people are always the most important asset in any organization before,...

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Vision vs. Insight

Vision inspires us to move forward; insight drives us to dig deeper.Vision zooms into the future-as if -it were closer;insight penetrates to- gain an in-depth understanding of- what's going on underneath.Vision leads us to-explore the future with-expanded horizon.Insight encourages us-to ponder the deep meaning of the things,they are the guide lights brighten the journey of our life.Without vision, the trip is like -spinning the wheel,going nowhere;Without...

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Align IT GRC Framework with IT management to Improve Organizational Maturity

IT departments that have their own house in order, have absorbed compliance and operational risk management, and align IT GRC framework with IT management seamlessly can move on to greater, more strategic business needs.Many IT organizations are at the crossroad to either become the business growth engine or turn to be irrelevant. In some circumstances, IT management seems to miss a relatively important measure of success or failure, the ability...

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The Monthly “Performance Master” Summary: Critical Thinking and Performance Management Aug. 2020

Critical Thinking is crucial because there are blind spots in performance management which are perhaps inevitable and various pitfalls on the way. Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure...

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Understanding is an “Amazing Thing”

An understandable mind is a step closer to innovation, two inches deeper to wisdom. Understanding is an amazing thing.Understanding is based on knowledge,but deeper than knowledge.Two seemingly opposite words -"Under and Stand," articulate the multifaceted meaning of “understanding.”   True understanding is-a “magic thing”;it can transform -tears to laughing;hatred to love;false to truth;darkness to brightness;raining day to sunshine;Black...

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Improve Organizational Manageability via Deepening Systems Understanding

The digital organizations are not the "closed system" but the dynamic digital ecosystem which is complex, interrelated, and interconnected, full of opportunities and risks. Digital organizations are the hyper-connected and interdependent complex dynamics of the ecosystem within which the business is competing and with which the business is unavoidably entangled. They could be disrupted by emerging trends or disturbed by nonlinear events. Thus,...

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Insight of the Week 8/21-8/28 “Future of CIO” Aug. 2020

 Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating, and sharing.The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 7000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc.The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is...

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“Group” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2020

 In an Abilene paradox, a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of many or all of the individuals in the group. "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...

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Organizational Structure Design and Innovation

The organization design enforces self-adaptation, self-management, and self-renewal.Digital organizations are all about information savvy, people-centricity, high-performance, and speed, with an amalgam of socio-systems, techno-systems, bio-systems, and Econo-systems, etc. Corporate structure and its impact on business efficiency, agility, and innovation could play either a positive or negative impact. To make a seamless digital paradigm shift,...

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: Navigate IT Transformation via “5W+1H” Inquiries Aug. 2020

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things.Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership roles also continue 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 Ultra-Modern BoDs Set Culture “Pathways” to Transformative Changes

 Culture change is possible but difficult, and it is a slow and complicated process. But it’s a pathway to transformative change and unlock business potential. It is a continuously changing world, and no organization can afford to stick to its old ways of doing things. Strategy guides change and culture is the pathway for change. BoDs as focused, clear-headed realists will need to take a few steps back trying to get the real picture of...

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