Illustratecriticalreasoning

Critical Thinking has been described as "thinking about thinking.”

Our global worlds are ecological systems which keep evolving. There are all sorts of gaps that need to be closed. Critical thinking is an important thinking capability for business leaders and professionals to survive and thrive in “VUCA” digital dynamic today. 

The most important capability of the cognitive mind is the willingness and ability to practice critical thinking, making sound judgment and solving problems large or small effectively.



Be neutral; no biases or emotional quandary: Cognitively, perception is sometimes a false reality; being impartial means to gain an impartial perspective by exploring the multitude of thought processes; willing to listen to diverse viewpoints; be insightful to understand people or things from different angles and be inclusive to appreciate different points of view. There is frustration in the process of decision-making and scenario of problem-solving. Such frustration may come from subjective perception, sometimes with unconscious bias, lack of emotional intelligence, an element of dissonance or disagreement between varying stakeholders, miscommunication or lack of empathy.

Being objective implies we would like to continue to learn, update knowledge, and collect feedback which can help to uncover one’s biases, practice critical thinking to make sound judgment. Thus, we need to be surrounded with people having cognitive differences, they can provide honest, friendly and worthy feedback, particularly in a decision process for improving judgmental intelligence.

Realize the objectives, understand the outcomes based on the facts alone: Nowadays, quality information is mixed with outdated knowledge; truth and false co-exist around us. Without thinking critically, "rational" decisions can have unintended consequences. The aim of scientific investigation is about gathering evidence, data, to confirm or refute hypotheses about the world.

Data regardless how big or complex does not make sense if not converted into quality information, fact-based knowledge for harnessing decision making Whether the change is occurring in your own mind or intended to change somebody else's mind -persuasion; if done in a careful manner by leveraging quality data, paying attention to the truth and plausibility of the premises, their support by additional evidence data, and the validity of the argument patterns, it can qualify as critical thinking.

Apply experience or logically inherent or learned qualities: Every bit of knowledge we acquire should either increase our confidence or better our judgment or then do both. The ultimate aim of learning knowledge or accumulating experience is to make sound judgment and gain wisdom. We also share with others what we learned or experienced and sought new knowledge from others or experiences of others. We just have to deepen the experience continually to capture the insight or broaden our experiences to cultivate creativity or refine wisdom.

Critical thinking calls for a persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge, experiences, in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends. In order to improve critical thinking skills, gain unique insight and improve professional competency, experience can no longer be measured quantitatively only, quality counts, dynamic counts, and learning agility counts - in mastering the full cycle of in-depth understanding.

Satisfy the outcomes with a high probability through inferential reasoning: Be cautious about the decision-making pitfalls, besides too much gut-feeling or procrastination, Critical Thinking is contextual, it involves both induction and deduction continuum, and brings insight into different situations. Inferential logic helps to analyze thoughts, evaluate them and choose the best for the situation, weave all important elements seamlessly for making sound judgment and getting fruitful results.

Critical thinking involves many thinking techniques such as temporal, abstract, induction and deduction, holistic and inclusive, etc. All efforts directed to fill the gap in improving our judgment skills. Problem solvers with critical thinking skills can comprehend dynamic; master induction or deduction; understand variables, interfaces, and interactions, weigh in varying decision factors, figure out “why” and “what” about the problem before jumping to the “how,” with the ultimate goal for effective problem-solving.

Conclude with a result which actualizes the objectives: Critical Thinking is contextual, both reality-oriented and evidence-oriented. An essential part of the 'framing process' by applying critical thinking is to understand what your high-level outcomes are related to the issue. Asking the right questions requires leveraging Critical Thinking ability to absorb information forecast potential; analyze risks/benefits, compare and contrast options, and develop creativity.

You cannot choose between alternatives without being clear about your desired outcome. Critical Thinking is commonly understood to involve the commitment to the cross-disciplinary practices for complex problem solving; willingness to foster criticality in others, willingness to imagine or remain open to considering alternative perspectives, willingness to integrate fresh or revised perspectives into the ways of thinking and acting.

 
Critical Thinking has been described as "thinking about thinking.” The only small percentage of the population is the real critical thinker. Information-friendly environment can stimulate or discipline critical thinking mindsets. By applying critical thinking fluently; an effective decision can be defined as an action you take that is logically consistent with the information you get, the alternative you perceive, and the preference you have, to identify, analyze and solve issues for the better of the organizations and societies.

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Illuminateprofoundity

Profundity is important to -connect the mind, bridge the difference, unify our humanity, empathetically.

The term digital " THINKINGAIRES" we advocate in this book refers to the talented digital leaders and professionals who continue to create new ideas, to practice thought leadership, and to bring the world both content richness and context intelligence.

The truth is that each of us is a complex blend of contrasts: positive and negative; intuitive and logical with imperfect judgment. When we use our different perspectives to complement each other’s thinking, we can overcome common challenges facing humankind. And surely doing some mind vs. mind practices will help to understand different thought processes from different dimensions with clarity.

Illuminate Profoundity

Initiativesofprofoundity Nowadays, the world becomes complex, unpredictable, knowledge is only a few clicks away, but sometimes misinformation or outdated concepts cause silo and confusion. Profound mind can read between the lines, see around the corner, communicate empathetically, and make progressive changes consistently.

Innateprofoundity Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means being insightful and gaining an in-depth understanding of things or people to overcome unconscious biases. It is the responsibility of each individual to examine themselves and to make sure they are open to true understanding, able to see beyond the obvious, look around the corner, and dig into the root cause of the problems. Here are a few characteristics of

Innerlogicinprofundity Increasing pace of changes, overwhelming growth of information, fierce competitions, frequent disruptions are the new normal. Profound leaders and professionals are open and deep, able to apply multiple thinking processes to expand their perspective of circumstances, and leverage nonlinear logic in dealing with varying situations wisely.

InnateprofundityThe world becomes over-complex and interdependent; in order to make sound judgment and solve problems effectively, business professionals need to observe, perceive, and pay attention to the myriad of internal, external, forces that define and influence the way we do business these days. They should become more profound, to dig into the root causes of issues, read between the lines, see around the corner, communicate empathetically, and deal with varying circumstances thoughtfully.

Isntprofundityinsightfulthing? Profundity is important to -connect the mind, bridge the difference, unify our humanity, empathetically.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10000th 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 and innovating new ideas; 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 takes 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 diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.

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Illustratereason

There are reasons for -every progress, we make; each problem, we create, doesn’t making logical reasons of vast world, expedite - Human Evolution?

People are

rational human beings,

search for-

reasons behind-

all meaningful things;

explore why underneath-

the problems;

figure out causes of-

emotional turmoil,

uncover-

truth & myth;

inferentially.

Nature is -

dynamic, fluid,

full of story;

the world is still-

full of-

unknown, mysteries;

there are reasons for-

tidying up,

seasons of changes;

there are cause-effects for -

every progress,

we make;

each problem,

we create,

doesn’t making-

logical reasons of

vast world,

expedite -

Human Evolution?

Each of us is -

on a journey to -

move forward;

we must figure out-

reasons for change;

agree with-

the why part of-

movement,

develop -

our own level of -

participating,

recharge energy

drive consistent actions,

out of that change,

progressively.

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Initiativesofcapabilitycoherence

Capabilities is a foundation to build a solid corporate brand.

Our world becomes over-complex and uncertain, in order to adapt to the ever-evolving ecosystem dynamic, the capability development cycle is significantly shortened to develop dynamic competency for enabling changes. 

The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible elements. It’s important to gain insight into the condition, relationship or dependency of capabilities to improve its coherence and maturity, and focus on building long-term business competency.

Integral capability: Capabilities, especially at the integral level may include dependencies, one is part of another or depends on another. The concept of “integral” often refers to mixing a few nonlinear capabilities that build dynamic business competency. An integral capability enables us to create something new out of something existing, reaching the new horizon out of an old vision in making transcendence for reaching the next level of business discovery and autonomy.

High-responsible businesses are able to integrate people-centric processes into dynamic capabilities; integrate modular capabilities into more complex capabilities; and integrate relevant capabilities into differentiated competencies, to implement their business strategy.

Capability synthesis: It takes both detailed and holistic pictures to understand how the “part” interconnected with the ”whole.” Capability synthesis involves integrating quality information, bridging siloed functions or structures, optimizing business processes, binding up varying business components, and using IT as a threshold to synthesize a unique set of core competency.

Capability synthesis is the right combination of capability coherence and innovation. The synthetic capabilities usually are difficult to duplicate, as there are organizational learning and cultural ingredients in it, so it takes time to refine and differentiate. To expedite capability development cycle, embed agility in processes, make iterative delivery and continuous improvement.

Capability criticality: The business management needs to assess whether the capability which exists is sufficient to meet the needs of their strategies. Assessing criticality of capability helps the business management set the right priority by balancing short-term and long term perspectives, to enable strategy management and build their business long term advantage.

An objective assessment of capability includes the importance of each capability to the enterprise; different weighting may be applied to capability-strategy mapping, ensuring you have a set of differentiated capabilities to enable strategy management and build long term business advantage.

High mature capability can only be developed and sustained via strong governance discipline. Organizational processes underpin business capabilities; and culture nurtures capability coherence. Capabilities is a foundation to build a solid corporate brand.

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Innovativeleadership

The more -"innovative leaders," we have; the better for- the world, moving forward.

There are -

known unknown,

unknown unknown;

innovative leaders are-

those who-

are capable of-

predicting future,

reimagining presence,

learning from the past;

their unique observation,

clear discernments -

touch the heart,

connect the mind;

enable -

others with-

a creative spirit.

From sowing-

the seed of creativity,

to growing -

innovation fruits,

reaping-

innovation benefits;

innovative leaders are-

visionary, competent,

unconventional;

courageous, curious,

capable to-

drive changes,

make a deep influence.

Every leader faces -

obstacles that-

are difficult to surmount;

innovative leadership is -

the unique combination of -

creative mentality, attitude,

behaviors to-

formulate -

alternatives,

achieve -

meaningful results over-

a sustained period of time.

Can you-

think and act beyond -

the boundaries,

to unlock-

collective human potential,

innovatively?

Shall you-

spread leadership voice,

amplify creative influence?

The more -

"innovative leaders,"

we have,

the better for-

the world,

moving forward.

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Initiativesforagility

Agility is a must in today's hyper-connected world where the customer expects everything on-demand and cost-effective by enhancing interaction, iteration, improvement and collaboration.

Agility is not just the ability to change. It is a cultivated capability that enables an organization to respond to a dynamic business environment in an effective, and sustainable way timely. Agility involves the whole ecosystem, impacting on all sorts of stakeholders, from the customer’s requirement to the delivery, for improving dynamic business capability, innovation excellence, and organizational resilience.

Agility and capability: High performing businesses depend on their differentiated sets of business capabilities underpinned by the well-managed business processes matrix within the organization. Business agility improves organizational abilities to change; while dynamic capability improves business agility. To develop dynamic capability and improve business agility, conduct a gap analysis of capability vs requirements, facilitate the process of deep analyzing, to identify areas in a capability portfolio that can be changed and optimized.

With agility as a management philosophy, capability can be decomposed to finer grain sub-capabilities with different layers of granularity. One capability may be implemented by multiple business processes for multiple products and services. Dynamic capabilities are the strategic routines by which firms achieve new resource configurations as markets emerge, split, evolve, etc to improve agility. It’s about how to keep the modular design, iterative planning and improving, to bridge strategy and execution, and transcend business into the next level.

Agility & innovation: Agility enables business innovation by taking advantage of resources, building differentiated business capabilities to gain competitive business advantage solidly. Innovation requires an atmosphere of flexibility, iterative development; regular feedback from stakeholders can promote creativity in an agile setting. The kinds of the latest technology and other resources needed to bind innovation capabilities into executable processes.

Agile teams are innovative by refining and improving their own processes for adding value, developing innovative technical solutions by coming up with new possibilities. The variety of agilest personas are in demand to accelerate mind flow, knowledge flow and idea flow; enhance iterative improvement or innovation. There is a recognizable core of approaches and activities that produce profitable innovation. The real challenge is to understand where and how you can and should improve to get the biggest effect and scale up innovation across the digital ecosystem.

Agility & Resilience: One of the agile goals is to improve business resilience. Resilience is an elastic component of organizations, being flexible and adaptable in the midst of threat and disruption, undergoing high dynamic stress and yet they are able to recover smoothly. The goals of an agile transformation are to increase value received and decrease risk, or overall organizational resilience. Agility can be productivity multipliers by eliminating impediments, building changeability, and improving resilience.

In reality, there are so many variables in the business environment. It is a journey from “doing Agile” to “being agile.” An agile organization at any scale that can retain an overall sense of vision and purpose, can communicate effectively, continuously improve, reflect on its own limitations, respond to change dynamically, eliminate waste and continuously improve, to ensure organization becomes more resilient with a high-level of business agility and maturity.

The inevitable range, breadth, depth, and pace of uncontrollable factors acting on any organizations across vertical sectors mean identifying business vulnerability, handling the management fuzziness, overcoming frictions. Agility is a must in today's hyper-connected world where the customer expects everything on-demand and cost-effective by enhancing interaction, iteration, improvement and collaboration. Agile is an overarching management philosophy to include agile mindset, agile consensus, agile architecture, agile governance, for balancing flexibility and discipline, building organizational long-term competency.

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Innovategrc

In a high mature organization, governance must be viewed and assessed at the enterprise level, developing innovative GRC practices and achieving GRC holism.

Enterprise becomes more complex than ever, uncertainties and complexities are a common occurrence in any walk of human progress. GRC are a set of complex processes that, if well executed at the different levels of organizational hierarchy, will lead to decision coherence and business effectiveness. 

The GRC program is a journey, and it’s good to start at the top with risk awareness, appetite, attitude, oversight, etc, to improve business management maturity.

GRC convergence is a priority for their organization, driven by business complexity, interdependence: Corporate GRC discipline can fulfill its purpose as a high-level corporate enabler by providing a structured view and communication bridge between stakeholders, improving decision coherence, enforcing accountability across organizational hierarchy. GRC is not about a single role or reporting structure, as there are separate functions/roles in GRC disciplines and practices. Neither is GRC about lumping them together but allowing different roles to work together in harmony for improving business management

Nowadays, the geographical, functional, industrial territories start blurring, GRC convergence is an idea whose time may have come to streamline information flow, reuse or optimize common processes for improving business agility, effectiveness, and efficiency. Organizational GRC is a set of principles, processes, and practices to rationalize risk management and controls, automate governance, enforce compliance, giving management the information they need to improve business performance. It takes planning, methodologies, technologies, and practices to improve convergence effectiveness. An understanding of the relationship between corporate governance, risk management, compliance, controls, and strategies is fundamental to the successful implementation of GRC convergence.

GRC works best as a system: Every system is like three sides of a con, this side, that side and the integrative relationship between them. One of the important goals of GRC discipline is to improve the corporate decision-making effectiveness and consistency. The key point is to make sure the governance system is defined to establish the boundary and the properties that interact with the environment to improve business management effectiveness, agility, consistency,.

Effective GRC practices can mitigate both systematic and strategic risks on the journey of business growth and transformation. To innovate and implement holistic GRC, it’s important to develop a GRC system of principles, practices and ethics; embed the GRC mechanism in the key business processes; think about how GRC can be delegated and even automated when possible; develop the best and next practices to drive business change and business value the most.

Use the enterprise architecture framework as a base, expanding into a holistic GRC approach: GRC is about improving the maturity of the entire organization, the people, processes, and technology. An effective business architecture is an important governance tool to monitor varying GRC activities such as delegation of authority, auditing, or strategy monitoring, etc, to improve business effectiveness and efficiency. Effective GRC disciplines set various rules and regulations the organization has to comply with in a holistic way. A strong enterprise architecture framework as a knowledge management and communication facilitation tool instills GRC themes into the organizational culture, embeds GRC mechanisms in the key business processes, and enforces GRC practices at daily business activities to improve organizational management.

The purpose of the GRC is to improve business performance through the creation of multifaceted value to varying stakeholders. For an organization embarking on a GRC journey, effective GRC should sustain the transformative change in business. Establish holistic governance across disciplines spanning the entire value chain, build GRC principles for improving strategy management effectiveness, architecture cohesiveness, program portfolio maturity, optimize business performance through the creation of value to varying stakeholders in a coherent way. In a high mature organization, governance must be viewed and assessed at the enterprise level, developing innovative GRC practices and achieving GRC holism.

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Ingredientsofinnovation

To awaken innovation in the well-established organization, business leaders and professionals should think as an intrapreneur and act as a startup manager.

Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. 

The purpose of the book “Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way“ is to demystify innovation puzzles in a structural way.

  

 Ingredients of Innovation

Illuminateauthenticity Due to the exponential growth of information and frequent disruptions, authenticity is not only a leadership quality but a digital professional trait. To move forward from a knowledge economy to a creative economy, keep recirculating imagination and recycling knowledge.

Initiateauthenticity The world has become more connected and transparent, leadership is all about change, but there are so many variables to leverage in leadership refinement. Leadership is about developing people, not just managing them. Effective leadership is based on its authenticity, agility, profundity, creativity, consistency, and the context of influence, etc. Leadership is a mindset that requires commitment from the very top of an organization all the way to the bottom without exception. To unify, harmonize, and advance human society, it is imperative that "leadership" needs to be re-imagined, fully-explored, deeply understood and clearly refined for it to create multifaceted value.

Initiateglobalinnovation The global world we live in is in the digital paradigm shift due to increasing pace of changes and abundant information growth. It is a strategic imperative for today’s leaders and professionals to embrace the broader view of global society, shape a clear vision, and co-set a global innovation agenda.

Innovation Modern society is a dynamic continuum with collective human progress. Real societal advancement is made through the work of forwarding-looking mindsets, updated knowledge, creative activities, and progressive changes. Forethoughtful leaders and professionals need to ponder deeper: Why do innovations happen and what are key ingredients to drive them? How to identify innovators? Where are the hotspots to take innovation initiatives, how to connect the wider dots for spurring creative ideas and accelerate innovation performance?

Innovation With overwhelming growth of information, more demanding customers, fierce competitions, organizations across the vertical sectors must manage information effectively, bring to the table innovative solutions that meet customers’ needs while reducing the cost to market.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about 10000+ blog postings 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 takes 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 to human progression.



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Ingredientsoflgoballeadership

In the chaos will rise of a new breed of global leaders with strong global insight, learning agility, interdisciplinary expertise, or entrepreneurial spirit to go along with them.

As the world becomes so interdependent and interconnected, from digitalization to globalization, there are both opportunities and risks co-existing around the globe. Leadership is complex in that there are so many variables that are considered when evaluating leadership effectiveness and maturity. Interdisciplinary global leaders practice holistic thinking to perceive the “wholeness” of the global business ecosystem, breakdown geographical, functional, industrial, cultural, generational silos, analyze & synthesize cross-disciplinary information, improve problem-solving competency, orchestrate and scale up innovation in a global ecosystem structurally.

Global leadership parameters: The global executives as business generalists demand more parameters or comprehensive hard and soft disciplines in leadership, strategic thinking, relationship alliance, crisis management and public relations in addition to IT, finance, sales & marketing, HR, expertise, related expertise, etc. The common parameters of successful global leaders include such as authenticity, learning agility, global knowledge, cultural empathy, emotional intelligence, problem-solving competency. At the global stage, how deep your understanding is based on the mindset, logic, knowledge, lenses, and the methodology you leverage to interpret things.

Technically, there are different variables that need to be weighed in to improve global leadership sophistication. Leadership is about positive thinking, confident attitude, professional expertise, and exemplary behavior via continuous practices to make progressive changes. Thoughts are formed, potential are unleashed, personalities are shaped, and aspects are delivered by variable. Global leaders genuinely look within their own hearts and minds to learn about the barriers, understand situations as a two-sided coin, make the balance of asking and answering; induction & deduction, analysis & synthesis, to lead forward influentially.

Global leadership x-factors: Leadership is an integral science and abstract art. Leadership impact is decided by different factors; global leadership “X-factors” can be defined as “variables” in a given situation that could have the most significant impact on the outcome, and it’s a noteworthy special talent or quality. So multidimensional understanding, interdisciplinary expertise, change agility, inclusiveness, innovativeness, etc, are those leadership x-factors which make a significant difference for global leadership influence.

We are at the paradigm shift; transformation occurs at the intersection of art, science and economics. Innovative global leaders as structural integrators can diverge, converge the multitude of ideas, thoughts, perspectives; defer, infer the multipath logic of problem-solving scenarios, stories, weigh on multiple variables, factors in making sound judgment and improve problem-solving effectiveness at the global scope. Besides global leadership x-factors, being an effective global integrator needs high levels of cultural flexibility with open-minded perspectives, complex global and intercultural responsibilities, and fresh taste to break things down and bind things up accordingly.

Global leadership innovation variables: The world-class innovation is about connecting global dots for solving problems alternatively. Compelling global business cases create a narrative that places a proposed investment within its competitive global context. On the innovation navigation dimension, to have more antennae focused on the trends and what’s going on in the world. Innovative global leaders demonstrate open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurship, global knowledge fluency, creativity, inventiveness, culture intelligence, etc. They are able to look at things from different angles, evaluate dynamic circumstances, decide and act, explore varying possibilities to solve problems in alternative ways for achieving the kind of transformative change that propels global growth.

Innovation is a process that can be managed. You can simulate innovative problem-solving processes, identify the constraints, requirements, contextualization, modularity, scalability, costs, and everything else you would need for solution optimization. It’s critical to lubricate the variety of relationships, engage effectively with multiple internal and external stakeholders, customers and partners worldwide to bridge gaps, and develop a set of interdisciplinary practices for moving the business to a dynamic, iterative, integral and interactive digital flow in the global business ecosystem.

Digital workforce today is more global, flexible, inclusive, and virtual in the hyper-connected and interdependent world. Leadership is all about direction, progressive change and innovation. It is imperative that global leadership needs to be re-imagined, explored, understood and embraced for it to amplify its influence. In the chaos will rise of a new breed of global leaders with strong global insight, learning agility, interdisciplinary expertise, or entrepreneurial spirit to go along with them. Influential global leaders can innovate, integrate and interact, to ensure that collective potential is unlocked and the journey of human societies is reaching the next level of advancement.

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Illustrateinterdisicplinarity

Can we keep - refreshing- traditional knowledge disciplines, work in, on, across- different systems, we generated to-know about our beings, profoundly?

Our co-shared world becomes -

hyperconnected, interdependent,

we need more people to-

discover patterns,

pursue truth,

verify reality,

abstract wisdom.


Knowledge boundary -

is blurred, significantly,

interdisciplinarity is -

the lenses to

see the global world,

holistically;

art is -

creative expression of -

human society,

vividly;

science is -

the ability to

produce solutions,

repetitively.

Can we start -

breaking chains of-

habitual thinking,

doubt conventional wisdom,

perceive objectively,

let new possibilities -

emerging, constantly.

Shall we deepen -

our understanding by-

leveraging history as -

condensed record;

information & technology as-

tools & methods;

anthropology as -

societal footprint,

philosophy as

-abstract insight;

psychology as -

cognitive diagnosis;

ecology as-

a natural system,

fluently?

Listen and tell,

mix & match,

question & answer…

are we -

entering the era of -

inquisitiveness, enlightenment in which-

we can think-learn-do to -

create our own momentum,

with free-spirit.


Even interdisciplinarity have not answered -

all our questions;

are we becoming-

more right or more wrong;

practical or idealistic;

divided or unified?

Can we keep -

refreshing-

traditional knowledge disciplines,

work in, on, across-

different systems,

we generated to-

know about our beings,

profoundly;

develop, elevate ourselves to-

the next level of -

growth, balance, harmonization,

transcendentally.

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Initiativesofprofoundity

Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means insightful understanding.

Nowadays, the world becomes complex, unpredictable, knowledge is only a few clicks away, but sometimes misinformation or outdated concepts cause silo and confusion. Profound mind can read between the lines, see around the corner, communicate empathetically, and make progressive changes consistently. 

In fact, profundity is one of the crucial professional traits to lead effectively and solve problems smoothly. It’s important to analyze and synthesize information, examine your thought processes and make sure you are open to true understanding, form your own opinions, and reach a high level of cognitive maturity.

Profundity implies objective perception, interdisciplinary contextualization, systematic insight: Your perception affects your world and what you project on the world, as well as how to respond to the world. People misunderstand or mistrust each other because of pre-conceptual assumptions, cognitive biases, stereotyping, extreme thinking, etc. It’s important to cultivate cognitive abilities to ensure that your version of perception is more objective, closer to the actual reality; think deeper and act step-wisely. 

Being profound is also about balance, upon striking the right balance without any sort of extreme thinking or unconscious bias; being confident and humble, being passionate and cool-headed. Profundity is not for its own sake, but to be more persuasive for communicating with clarity or become more influential for leading forward by connecting the mind or unifying the difference.

Profound understanding is critical, but not negative; paradoxical, but not confusing; sophisticated, but not manipulated; creative, but not naïve; mature, but not outdated: In terms of profound understanding, it’s critical to integrate different viewpoints; search for new perspectives, and gain an accurate holistic understanding of the overall situation without ignoring interdependence, in order to dig into the root cause of the problems, and solve them holistically.

 It is the responsibility of each individual to examine themselves and to make sure they are open to profound understanding, have the better opportunities to connect the dots across the boundaries, look at the wider aspects around problem space, frame the right problems and solve them smoothly.

Profound leaders are able to see beyond the obvious, look around the corner, gain deep insight: Businesses today become much more hyper connected, and interdependent than ever, the boundary of knowledge domains is blurred and the scope of knowledge is expanded in the continual base. Being profound implies sound judgment and clear discernment. Being profound also means consistency-being consistent in the habit of learning, acting, and problem-solving. 

Too often, people may take the easy path, think and work at a superficial level, a profound mind is both open and deep, leverage multiple thinking processes in dealing with varying situations wisely, gain deep insight of a problem, and take a more holistic approach to solve it thoroughly.

Climbing the Knowledge-Insight-Wisdom pyramid is a thorny journey with all critical steps in gaining profundity. Profound leaders and professionals are open and deep at the same time, being able to apply nonlinear logic in dealing with varying situations wisely, improve cognitive competency, to reach the deep state of consciousness and improve leadership maturity.

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Illustrateopportunityvsproblems

Some problems are difficult, opportunities are hidden; if you are not -looking for- opportunities, you are unlikely to -discover them, fluently.

A "problem" is -

an opportunity,

waiting to happen;

opportunities arise from-

the problems,

people face,

constantly.

Seeing something as-

a problem or an opportunity is -

all about -

personal perception;

the more time,

you are given to -

analyze the situation,

the more likely,

you are to discover-

opportunities in problems,

discernfully.

Some problems are difficult,

opportunities are hidden;

if you are not -

looking for-

opportunities,

you are unlikely to -

discover them,

fluently.

It takes collaboration to-

transform a tough problems into-

progressive opportunities;

It takes vision,

dedication,

innovation,

to refine opportunities into -

value driven activities.

A 'problem' for one, is-

an 'opportunity' for-

the other;

can you foresee -

opportunities before-

the problem,

anticipate latent needs,

find solutions for it,

produce great outcome,

consistently?

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Illumination

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #10,000 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 10,000+ blog postings in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc.

 The “Digital Master” book series includes 29 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to businesses and society. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Here is the weekly insight of innovation leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.

Initiateglobalinnovation The global world we live in is in the digital paradigm shift due to increasing pace of changes and abundant information growth. It is a strategic imperative for today’s leaders and professionals to embrace the broader view of global society, shape a clear vision, and co-set a global innovation agenda.

InitiativesofBoDs The business environment becomes so volatile and uncertain, governance is to establish a consensus of what is normal for your organization; manage exceptions as they arise; update your consensus of normal as the organization changes. There’s a correlation between corporate governance and business performance, and there's a clear connection between bad governance and poor performance.

Initiativesofambidexterity When jumping into the diverse, ambiguous, and dynamic “VUCA” digital new normal, business leaders need to envision and focus forward; judge the upcoming curves and obstacles on the path to go digital with unpredictable outcomes.

Initiatives As we move forward towards more radical business transformation with nonlinearity and cross-disciplinarity, the problems become over-complex and interconnected, usually have many causes and can be very complex, you can't figure out the exact cause and effect so the solutions are vague.

Initiativesofriskintelligence Enterprises of the future are increasingly exhibiting the “VUCA” characteristics in various shades and intensity. Any company that fervently wants to be innovative must be willing to face risks and deal with risks effectively. Risk management is very useful for building a solid business reputation. It should be handled and prioritized in such a way that it’s inherent in the way that it doesn't negatively impact flexibility to produce premium solutions.

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking of new ideas; sharing and innovating. 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 takes 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 diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.

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We simply can’t stand still, bridging the gap of - opportunities between - “where you are and want to become” is -a welcomed challenge.

As we move into-

digital new normal,

steadily,

isn’t it the time to -

bridge the gaps between -

old and new,

vision and reality,

local and global,

seamlessly?


Between darkness & brightness,

there are -

always fricions, tensions, conflicts;

between questions and answerings,

there is-

doubt, skepticism, constant learning.

In the circumstances full of-

complexity, uncertainty,

there is-

a thin line between -

success and failure:

risk- avoidance & risk-tolerance;

sometimes,

you might go through-

a whole series of -

failures until -

you reach -

one success.

At other times,

you may go through -

a full range of-

achievements before-

you have a failure;

do you understand-

failure is a matter of-

chance to

drive success if -

you can -

take risks,

work in uncertainty?

Change is -

inevitable;

there are positive, negative,

gray areas in between;

we simply can’t stand still,

bridging the gap of -

opportunities between -

“where you are and want to become” is -

a welcomed challenge;

the linkage between -

art and science are -

intertwined,

many skills are transferred,

cross-disciplinarily.

Shall you strike -

the right balance between -

setting rules and

letting “out-of-the box” thinking flowing,

smoothly;

Are you able to-

identify gaps between -

talent for tomorrow and skills for today,

insightfully?

Could you balance between-

long-term short-term perspective,

thrive in the "VUCA" reality,

smoothly?

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Leadership in the coming decade will need to be more authentic, agile, and advanced.

The world has become more connected and transparent, leadership is all about change, but there are so many variables to leverage in leadership refinement. 

Leadership is about developing people, not just managing them. Effective leadership is based on its authenticity, agility, profundity, creativity, consistency, and the context of influence, etc. Leadership is a mindset that requires commitment from the very top of an organization all the way to the bottom without exception. To unify, harmonize, and advance human society, it is imperative that "leadership" needs to be re-imagined, fully-explored, deeply understood and clearly refined for it to create multifaceted value.

Authenticity: Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership effectiveness and advancing human society. Oftentimes, the stereotypical perceptions, style over substance presentation, or cookie-cutting matching approach cannot discover an authentic leader or progressive professional. It's only when we lead with our true selves that we're able to connect purposefully, build trust, deepen understanding, and truly engage with others' authentic selves for moving forward collaboratively.

The authentic, profound, heterogeneous, creative leaders can inspire via clarified vision, rejuvenate passion, in today’s interdependent dynamic global ecosystem. It is always critical to develop a culture that encourages real thinking and being authentic. Authentic cultures don't reflect their members, their members reflect them; meaning you select team members who are natural fits - with fitting mindset, attitude, and behavior. With authentic leadership, trustful communication and fair principles, but not overly rigid processes, people are inspired to strengthen their strength, to become who they are, and unleash their full potential.

Agility: Change is part of a new normal with increasing pace in such an environment, how can leaders ensure that their organizations are reading the right signals timely and acting on emerging opportunities or risks in the right ways? Agile leaders inspire cross- disciplined thinking, iterative communication, and cross-functional collaboration, to reduce the time between stimulus and response. The Agile leadership will continue to learn the latest digital trends that could have a huge impact for business’s long-term growth, being learning agile to create momentum constantly.

Agile is neither just a methodology nor an end state, it’s a set of principles and guidelines, leadership philosophy, the management approach and engineering discipline. Agile leaders can cultivate a culture of agility, so organizations can move themselves forward through open-mindedness, good attitude, the lens of inclusiveness, and tolerance of ambiguity, to improve business capacity to change, and overall organizational maturity.

Ambidexterity: Business world has become over complex and hyper connected. It's important to practice open leadership and build an ambidextrous organization with both strong listening and telling, change and stability, transaction and transformation abilities for improving business agility and maturity. If you do not listen, you will lose the goodwill of the collaborators and innovators. If you can not tell insightfully, you perhaps can not build a strong reputation to make a positive influence. It’s critical for designing, developing, delivering hybrid digital solutions and practicing holistic management disciplines continually.

Ambidextrous leadership can strike the right balance of questioning and answering, listening and telling; centralization and distribution, innovation and standardization, simplicity and complexity; process and flexibility; performance and potential, harnessing innovation and improving efficiency, etc; All of which are invaluable pairs of duel forces for running an ambidextrous high-performance organization.

Leadership faces new imperatives to thrive in “VUCA” reality. Leadership in the coming decade will need to be more advanced and distributed—the opposite of the command-and-control leadership that has dominated the twentieth century. Regardless of how you categorize leadership, what keeps leaders successful across functional, organizational, industrial, geographical or generational borders, is their authentic fitting mindset, humble attitude, and differentiated competencies to continuously be open to learning and applying these learnings as they lead forward with courage and strategy.

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