Practicing Prefund Leadership- Innovative, Inclusive, International

Leadership comes in all shapes and sizes today. It’s situational and unique, local and global, intuitive and informative. The world has been interwoven through the internet and the latest digital technologies, any leadership role, needs to be better-rounded than to have a title of "logical," “global,” or "creative." Great leaders should be good at all of those characteristics. A logical mind can follow directions and take a step-wise approach; ...

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All Sorts of Ineffectiveness

Considering how awesome the synergy of a highly innovative organization could create, to make people happier, customers delightful and the business as a whole accelerating growth.Even businesses step into the hyper-connected digital world, many business managers and professionals still apply old silo management mindsets to new ways of organizing, and this legacy of the old economy causes most of the organizations across vertical sectors today are...

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Good Boards Inform, Great boards Innovate

Good boards inform, great boards innovate.The Corporate Board's role is to oversee business strategy, monitor performance, and pull management out of the trees to see the forest. Great boards consist of independent directors who are “rowing together in the boat.” They see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us versus them.” They spend more time on strategy development, innovation...

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Uplifting Leadership by Praising

It’s not about praising people for the sake of praising people. Appreciation of cognitive differences and thanks for people’s contribution.Leadership is both art and science. One of the ways we build people up is to praise them - leading by praising. There is power in praising people! Something begins to happen in them, in you, and in your relationship when you praise someone, for encouragement and engagement. If criticism is stick, praise is carrot,...

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The Art and Science of Integration

Comprehensive planning, well defined framework approach and a set of technology and methodology are all crucial to improve integration effectiveness and business maturity.Contemporary organizations are informative and interdependent, but often with silo setting and overly rigid hierarchy. In large complex enterprises in which there are many revenue streams, many business units, many geographies involved, many products and services will have a variety...

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Organizational Structure Design Maturity

Forward-looking organizations experiment with different types of organizational structure design to enforce business alignment, enablement, communication, collaboration, and harmony.The organizational structure carries inherent business capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame. The pyramidal structured organization brings up a certain level of efficiency, but an overly rigid hierarchy becomes the very obstacle to stop the digital...

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Quote of "Uniformly"

Organizations are able to adapt quickly in a sustainable manner to changes (threats, opportunities) of any dimension in the operating environment and grow, and embrace the changes at a fast and uniform pace across the length and breadth of the organization."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...

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12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practice via Innovation Inquiries

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 reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. The important thing...

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Best Quote of "Untie"

From the boardroom to the contact center, the touchy-feely conversations need to truly connect the minds and untie the knots in people’s hearts."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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How to Enforce the corporate board's GRC Discipline

The contemporary board needs to have all sorts of ingredients to enforce GRC discipline, and they have to play an instrumental role in exemplifying leadership, influencing changes and orchestrating digital transformation.The corporate board is like a steering wheel, and plays a crucial role in overseeing business strategy and setting policies. Ideally, business insights captured either from the BoDs or other top leadership teams are like the guiding...

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Gaining Culture Empathy via Sociology

Learn, improve, adapt and evolve. And it’s the nature of evolution. The emerging digital world upon us is about hyperconnectivity and interdependence. When organizations start maturing, a key transformation must take place and it takes multidimensional thinking and cross-disciplinary knowledge. As such a large scale of changes, more than not, needs to gain the anthropological understanding of human society, instill desired culture value, and learn...

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Understanding the Value of Inclusiveness

Inclusion only happens when the ‘inclusiveness mindset’ is available with top management. Creative energy from top down can rejuvenate the culture of innovation,Contemporary organizations have the very characteristics of interdependence, hyper diversity, and information exponentiality. The challenge is to get people to recognize how inclusion improves communication, engagement, and retention, etc. However, many people in the workplace don't...

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Excellent "Unified" Quote

Vision is the unified view of the future!"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 to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility,...

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Innovating Business Model

Business Modeling is the basic and key business system you need to design, test and validate to keep companies viable.The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, creativity is the most desired trait for digital leaders and professionals today, and innovation is the light every organization is pursuing. Which themes...

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Nice "Unimportant" Quotes

“Delegate”: The decisions should be made for the whole team. The remedy is to question why it is urgent and dismantle that. Unfortunately, Urgent/Unimportant tasks are often political."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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Reusability is both Art and Science

 The sooner the organization's maturity reuse is leveraged, the sooner the organization will be able to be both global and locally flexible.With rapid changes and fierce competition, businesses should avoid reinventing the wheel and accelerate the products/services delivery cycle, decrease the development or support costs, and decrease your time to market. From a management perspective, how does re-use be managed and validated for fit-to-purpose?...

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Innovative-Insight

 Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing.The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 5 million page views with 7700+ blog postings 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...

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Amount of Self Management to Improve Innovation Maturity

As a person, you need to be optimized with a growth mind and a right mix of skill sets to get the work done innovatively. As an organization, you need to measure the innate change capacity and develop business strengths to reach the maximum potential.Going digital is an evolutionary path of pursuing the next level of organizational maturity and collective human progress via empowerment, engagement, and democratic meritocracy. Part of the digital...

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Develop Innovative Workplace

Revitalizing digital workforce won’t happen overnight, it takes planning, experimenting and scaling up. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today.  From an organizational...

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