Wednesday, September 2, 2020

The Monthly Learning Summary: Knowledge Power of Digital Leaders & Professionals Sep. 2020

With the exponential growth of information and a dynamic business environment, today’s digital professionals are innovative workers, hard workers, knowledge workers, and intelligent workers who are exploring, innovating, and evolving bringing new digital paradigms.

High organizational learning relates to high response in recognizing and addressing system constraints, adapt to the ever-changing environment. 

 With the increasing pace of changes and the cutting-throat competitions, to effectively respond to the digital dynamics, either individually or collectively, continuous learning becomes an important skill for capability building and prerequisite of developing changeability. 



       Knowledge Power of Digital Leaders & Professionals 



Knowledge Powers of Digital CIOs With rapid change and “VUCA“ digital new normal, the digital trend is that more and more CIOs, who have diversified experiences and colorful background, working across functional and industrial boundaries, can become well-rounded strategic business executives envisioning the upcoming business trends, practicing their knowledge power, and leading IT organization with a balanced mindset, viewpoints, activities, and speed.

"Leadership Master" Book Tuning V: Three Powers in the Niche-Based Leadership Leadership is all about the future and change. Digital breaks down the overly rigid organizational hierarchy and blurs the geographic territories. Therefore, the command and control leadership style is no longer effective to drive sustainable changes and leapfrog transformation. Digital also breaks down the silo and blurs the functional border, business border, and industry border. Leadership now becomes more open and trans-disciplinary, influential, and innovative. The digital leadership effectiveness is not based on how loud you can speak, but how profound you can influence. Digital makes everything so transparent, and dynamic, it raises the leadership bar as well because leadership is no longer just about a few spotlight moments, but a continuous delivery. Every digital leader must ask: What’s your leadership niche in order to lead effortlessly?

Knowledge Professionals’ Digital Competencies With the exponential growth of information and a dynamic business environment, today’s digital professionals are innovative workers, hard workers, knowledge workers, and intelligent workers who are exploring, innovating, and evolving bringing new digital paradigms. Knowledge professionals are intellectually curious, with a strong desire to learn and expand their horizons. Here is a set of knowledge professionals’ digital competencies.

Three Principles to Practice Expertise Power Power has many different formats; some visible, some invisible; some are earned, some are given; some are delightful, some are intimidating. There are three powers either as visible or invisible hands in an organization: Structural power (the position with the organizational hierarchy), expert power (business and technical knowledge), and connection power. Due to the exponential growth of information and the shorten knowledge cycle, expert power is perhaps more powerful than other types of powers in the digital era because brainpower can stimulate all kinds of creativity; and the knowledge power is the key for any sort of human progress. Here are three digital principles to practice expert power effectively.

The Knowledge, Experience, and Skill of Enterprise Architect Architecture is more of an art than a science, and being an Enterprise Architect requires the breadth and depth of knowledge from many aspects, enriched professional experience, and more skills than certifications. There are many channels to mature as an Enterprise Architect. Enterprise Architects with different maturing paths may see the same organization from varying lenses and with very different challenges.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about 7100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content take time for digesting, contemplation, and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify your voice, deepen your digital footprints, and match your way for human progression.

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