Inquisitiveleadership

It takes -courage, humility to -ask good questions; it takes wisdom to -ask the right questions.

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; influence and innovation.

The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about leadership maturity, and summarize five emergent digital leadership trends Here is the monthly tuning of digital leadership.

     Inquisitive Leadership

Inquisitive Leadership The business and world become over-complex and hyper-dynamic, how can leaders become more comfortable and confident in asking questions rather than giving answers. As in many instances, there is a perception that leaders should be the most experienced people and thus, have all of the answers. That’s a fallacy. Confidence comes from being comfortable in your role as a leader, value collective wisdom, not only provide answers but facilitate solutions. Should inquisitive leadership become a trend in the Digital Era?

Initiativeleadershiprefreshmentmaturity Leadership is the ability to influence with or without authority. The power of effective leadership depends on a number of factors such as the purpose to lead, multidimensional intelligence, the mix of knowledge and experience, the quality of information they receive and their collective leadership ability to operate as a team.

Initiateinquiries In a world full of information, the circumstances are complex, uncertain, a variety of cultures or traditions have inundated us with conventional wisdom. To explore the truth and make progressive changes, organizations need to continually cultivate the next generation of true critical thinkers, independent thinkers, or creative thinkers who can challenge conventional wisdom, analyze and synthesize all sources of information to form their own opinions and make objective judgment; generate novel ideas and solve problems unconventionally.

Inquisitiveleadership It takes -courage, humility to -ask good questions; it takes wisdom to -ask the right questions.

Innovationinquiries The goal of innovation is about creating sustainable competitive advantages. It's common that many companies tend to focus more on their core competencies with age, often forgetting about the value of innovation. Creative problem-solving is about trying something “unusual”- the thing that has never been done before. Radical innovation starts with a problem, having no solution in the current situation. They are critical to build long term business advantage.

The “Future of CIO” blog has reached 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 for human progression.

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Illustrateintuitionvssensation

Intuition is-more receptive, perceptional, holistic; sensation is -more active, focal, emotional.

Intuition is-

quick logic to-

understand, decide;

sensation evokes-

vision, feeling,

emotions;

are we provoked to-

make -

our intuition work,

get our sensation,

meaningful,

cohesively?


Intuition is -

a result of-

observation;

self-training;

sensation is -

a physical feeling,

resulting from -

something happening around.

Are you -

open-minded to-

push intuition button,

touches sensation nerve,

proactively?



Intuition is -

conceived as-

a kind of -

inner perception,

regarded as-

lucid understanding,

sometimes;

sensation makes us-

feel alive;

helps us evolve,

to have joy.

feel pain,

emotionally.

Intuition is-

more receptive,

perceptional,

holistic,

sensation is -

more active,

focal, emotional.

Can we-

experience sensation,

without get overwhelmed of it;

should we practice-

intuition,

but not addicted to it?

As intelligent human beings,

we do have to -

feel emotions,

develop intuition,

live with them through,

continuously;

when we become-

self-aware-

know the triggers to -

emotions,

understand intuition as-

gut-feeling;

we are able to -

feel and engage in life in-

a mindful way,

to advance humanity.

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Initiateglobalinnovation

It's imperative to deepen understanding of global issues contextually and dealing with common challenges cross-industry or cross-geographical locations smoothly.

 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.

In practice, the progress of the world needs to be pulled together and pushed forward by innovators, change agents across the globe, who can think globally, understand the cause-effect of many complex problems facing global society, in order to co-solving them smoothly.

Business leaders and professionals can develop global cognition, share the well-blended insight and foresight from a global lens: The world is diverse; global leaders and professionals must be open minded to appreciate all sorts of meaningful, tasteful, and informative things cross-boundarily. There's a discrepancy between subjective perception and reality; this is particularly true in the global team setting. The variety of perspectives opens our mind, and harnesses the values that each of us can bring to the table for reimagining a better global society.

Problem-solving at the global scope requires a mindset with curiosity, inclusiveness, intellectual sophistication and cultural empathy, etc. Developing world class insight and global foresight requires holistic thinking, strategic reasoning, systems understanding, and forecasting capability. It’s important to shape a global mindset which involves a personal intention to focus on being global, with cognitive abilities such as cultural empathy, learning agility, broaden their perspective of global society, deepen understanding of global issues, and set a directional guide for handling complex global issues in a structural way.

Being a truly global professional means you expand the horizon, improve interdisciplinary knowledge proficiency, build global capability & competency: Being global is about crossing not just geographical borders but also cultural divides between business, government, and social sectors. It’s critical to develop cultural empathy, accumulate a variety of professional & life experience, develop unique competencies and skills for solving global level problems.

Professional competency is more related to knowledge and skill for particular work; the performance and the outcome. Global competency is a unique set of capabilities with focus to solve complex problems at the global scopes. Global professionals can view complex global problems, engage effectively with multiple internal and external stakeholders worldwide, gain universal understanding of crucial problems, build competitive teams to co-solve certain issues we all concern about effectively.

It often takes cross functional collaboration and interdisciplinary expertise to integrate global knowledge, talent and capacity for scaling innovation: Global leaders articulate strategic visions, interactive designs, and navigating directions, to integrate global knowledge, cultural heritage, talent diversity into a holistic global innovation system. A harmonized global society has a huge potential to become a highly innovative system in which all sorts of components and ingredients are dynamically integrated into global capacity to generate the art of difference and make a significant impact on societal evolution.

The successful integration will depend on the underlying business relationships between all of the crucial points and how they influence each other in building differentiated business competency. In order to scale up innovation efforts across the boundaries, orchestrate organizational interrelationship by sharing information, bridging gaps, enforcing communication, harnessing collaboration, building trust, and encouraging "self-generated" engagement. Forethoughtful leaders develop new capability to expand global business growth; build working environments in which the global team and virtual team can thrive, gain universal understanding of crucial problems, co-solve certain issues we all concern about, and drive smooth paradigm shifts.

We live in a hyper-connected and interdependent global society in which change is the norm. if we don't make it happen, we're not able to run an advanced global society. Success in the digital world demands both incremental improvement and transformative breakthrough. It's imperative to deepen understanding of global issues contextually and dealing with common challenges cross-industry or cross-geographical locations smoothly.

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IlluminateInsightvscreativity

The world is-full of -conventional wisdom, outdated common sense; unsolved puzzle, hidden potential; can you reach on- a higher plane of thinking…

Creativity is -

out-of-box” thinking,

to create -

something fresh;

insight is to -

think beyond -

the surface,

with an intuitive understanding of -

the world,

profoundly.



Creativity is -

an innate process to-

imagine, inspire ideas,

cognitively;

insight is to-

think into -

the box after-

thinking -

out of the box,

to understand -

specific cause-effect of-

problems, contextually.



Creativity is -

a result of -

living in -

your intuitive space,

connect-

the wider dots, to-

generate -

something fresh;

insight is-

to capture information, 

uncover patterns,

in a specific context,

to fix complex problems,

holistically.

Creativity leverages -

different kinds of -

thought processes,

association,

perspective shifting,

opposites,

to come up with -

alternative solutions to-

a challenge, consciously.


Creativity is-

a cognitive ability to-

think differently,

break through -

conventional wisdom;

encourage open mind,

open space,

open ideas,

unconventionally.

Insight is -

an intuitive expression,

neurological path,

takes you wherever-

it needs to go,

without boundaries,

directionally.


The world is-

full of -

conventional wisdom,

outdated common sense;

unsolved puzzle,

hidden potential;

can you reach on-

a higher plane of thinking,

connect the unusual dots to-

spark creativity,

unbelievably;

should you dig underneath -

the surface,

to deepen understanding,

capture unique insight,

wisely?

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Innovativeglobalist

 We live in a diverse global society with a multigenerational workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural wisdom, and multidimensional innovation, etc.

We live in a diverse global society with a multigenerational workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural wisdom, and multidimensional innovation, etc.

Global professionals today have to continue sharing their viewpoint about things or events happening in their surroundings, their perspective of future global society; their roles on making desired changes, their professional strengths & weakness, as well as how to team up for building competitive global team for co-solving common problems at the worldwide base and developing professional competencies.

            Innovative Globalists

Initiativesofglobalists As the world moves into a hyper-connected and interdependent age, global professionals today have to continue sharing their viewpoint about things or events happening in their surroundings, their perspective of future organization, global society; their roles in making transformative changes.

Initiativesofinnovation We live in a contemporary multipolar society with a multigenerational workforce, interdisciplinary knowledge, and multi-cultural wisdom in a hyper-connected and interdependent ecosystem. The digital paradigm arises out of new knowledge and the emerging trends to capture the great opportunities, synchronize organizational functions and parts to create synergy, develop a high-mature workforce, harness multi-industrial collaborations and make advanced movement in a consistent way.

Innovativegloballeadership We live in a global society with enriched knowledge and talent diversity, the variety of perspectives opens our mind, and harnesses the values that each of us can bring to the table. With the dynamic of globalization, highly effective global leaders with advanced global mindset can broaden their viewpoints based on enriched global knowledge and cultural empathy; deepening their understanding of complex issues with global contextualism; to create new paradigms which arise out of advanced mindsets, interdisciplinary knowledge, and innovative approach.

Innovativegloblist Nowadays, we live in a hyper-connected and interdependent global society. The geographical, functional, and industrial boundaries are blurred. Being global is about crossing not only borders but also cultural divides between business, government, and social sectors.

Innovativeglobalists We live in a global society with enriched knowledge, variety of culture, and diversity of talent; being global is about crossing not only borders but also cultural divides between business, nations or social sectors. The true globalists usually require high level skills such as global cognition, inclusiveness, adaptability, empathy, as well as multifaceted competencies to work in a global environment, attract global talent, and co-develop a hyperconnected and harmonized global society.

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 for human progression.

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Initiatechanges

Predicting and preparing the next level of transformative change is an iterative learning and changing continuum.

Today’s digital business ecosystem has become more complex and dynamic, change is continuously happening in the environment of a company. Change itself has changed constantly. Thus, Change Management also turns out to be more complex. The desires of stakeholders, clients, and employees are evolving naturally. The organization has to forecast upcoming change with a certain degree of precision, cultivate proactive change attitude, build the right level of change capacity, and explore transformative changes in all directions.

Change attitude: When we jump into the digital future of “VUCA” new normal –volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, change is never for its own sake, it is always for something new and advancing. It means the removal of something old and building something fresh. The forward-looking view of the organization is to determine what the future needs to look like, what the transformation must look like, how to deal with change inertia, how to overcome the roadblocks, close the blind spots, and bridge gaps on the path of change and innovation.

In reality, the lack of recognition of change impacts individuals and businesses’ willingness to extend themselves again for the next change. Learning agility will be important to drive change forward proactively. What a Change agent or champion most often does is to instill drive, passion, and enthusiasm, expand knowledge, build capability, and make continuous improvement. People with change aptitude continuously seek new challenges, solicit direct feedback, self-driven, accomplish the work, and unleash the potential, resourcefully.

Change continuum: Managing change as a continuum means that it is not sufficient to just change people’s attitude or control their behaviors manually. Organizations today need to shape a clear vision, constantly improve the business and see change as an opportunity while keeping a holistic overview of the business transformation are the core messages. Radical change needs to let go of “the voices from the past,” reprogram people's minds with new thinking, beliefs, and establish a new blueprint for how you can shape the digital future reality via change continuum.

Change occurs at the level of the individuals. To clear the path, whether that is the elimination of obstacles or to provide guidance, the digital leaders should present their vision blueprint; and have a very clear understanding of why their businesses exist, the value they bring to customers and the very reason for business transformation. It is only when the management has a sense of urgency, the majority of people are on the journey that the real results start to emerge.

Change capacity: The businesses, and the world as a whole become over-complex, uncertain, and ambiguous, the change management needs to ponder deeper: What is the organizational capacity for change? What shall you do to build or increase the business capacity to meet the growing demand? If radical changes are needed, does the change management structure exist internally to deliver on that? If not, should you look for a partner or possible acquisition? Etc. Successful organizations see changes coming and do pre-planning to overcome the resistance before it even manifests, and show support of overall organizational growth or shrinkage. 

The dynamic ecosystem allows the organization to morph as the business conditions and organizational capacities for change become better fit for adapting and driving changes in all its forms. The management should have a big picture of what’s going on so that they can justify the capacity planning properly to improve business change competency.


Predicting and preparing the next level of transformative change is an iterative learning and changing continuum. Going digital is more like a journey than a destination by navigating through changes in a structural way. It requires accelerated digital mindsets and takes a multidisciplinary management approach to improve the change capacity of the business and unlock business performance.

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Illustrate "Leader vs Manager"

A great leader does need to- manage "at time”; a great manager does need to- lead "at times"; can we all become- a leader or manager, to a certain degree?

Leaders are -

visionaries,

moving forward for-

growth, inspirationally;

managers are-

implementers to-

make things happen,

smoothly.



Leaders inspire -

people to -

think louder, further, deeper,

reach for-

what can be;

managers execute to-

what is,

rolling planning into -

reality, steadfastly;

Leaders define, articulate-

their vision,

effectively,

managers facilitate, communicate to

make it happen,

efficiently.



Leaders invite -

debates and challenges for-

innovation;

managers are capable of -

organizing, making-

smooth transitions.

 

The primary role of-

leadership is about -

creating change,

inspiring the masses toward -

the future, optimistically;

the primary objective of-

management is-

creating order,

administrating assignments to-

achieve targeted results.

tangibly.

A great leader does need to-

manage "at time”;

a great manager does need to-

lead "at times";

can we all become-

a leader or manager,

to a certain degree?

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Initiatives

So, addressing the correct need is what determines the right problem and solves them effectively.

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.

 It is important to experiment, explore, engage and strike the right balance between flexibility and hard process; understand customers’ wants & needs, provide alternative solutions to them, take multistage logical scenarios and create multiple pathways to solve problems smoothly.

It’s important to absorb knowledge quintessential, but remove or discourage the negative mindset or attitudes: There are multiple, inter-related dynamics in business circumstances today, change is inevitable. It has been said that to embrace change requires a change of mindset at every level of the organization, and an understanding that things cannot stay the same. Everyone can take the time to listen to and create some space to realign by pondering: What is important to us? What do we value? This is the groundwork that has to be done at all levels prior to initiating major change.

Today, problem-solving is complex. Often, people are looking for quick fixes to the problems they perceive; fixing the wrong cause of a problem will waste time and resources, increase anxiety, and disengage people. It’s important to really dig beneath the superficial layer, to understand correlation and causation. When you understand the interconnectivity and root causes of issues that need to be taken care of, you may well define a starting point to break it through, and handle them smoothly. The creative logic behind problem-solving is about embracing new perspectives, breaking down conventional thinking boxes, discovering patterns, balancing creativity and logic, applying interdisciplinary knowledge to pinpoint correlation, in order to solve or resolve problems holistically.

Insightful digital leaders with “discovery eyes” can see through patterns, discover potential, capture substance, and abstract wisdom quintessential: The philosophy behind the leadership is to build a competitive team and develop more leaders to encourage the creation of an environment in which all feel the need to demonstrate leadership disciplines, to take responsibility for achieving high performance results. Leaders need to observe, perceive, and pay attention to the myriad of internal, external, national or global forces that define and influence the way we do business these days.

In reality, there does appear to be a multidimensional leadership gap. It’s crucial to go through multidimensional analysis, practice nonlinear thinking, and frame bigger thinking boxes cross-disciplinarily. Leadership philosophy is methodical and has deliberate processes for identifying questions, reasoning, and thinking outside the box to abstract wisdom quintessential. Digital leaders with philosophical understanding can think, ask, and communicate to reach a point of agreement for setting up the right digital principles, navigate uncertainty, frame or solve problems in a structural way.

It’s crucial to bring greater awareness of people's dynamics, resource alignment, knowledge influence, cultural quintessential, or technological touches: Organizations today are diverse, you need to utilize technology to gather the data from multiple sources & leverage advanced analytics in talent management; look through the alternative talent pipeline, source talented people across geographical locations to solve problems smoothly.

Constructing a talent-potential landscape is a structural design process to improve business workforce management. There is a gap in the business system, it’s important to identify the root cause of low performance and competency gaps, help to streamline and identify root causes immediately and give practical guidance for improving talent relevant data and using it in creative ways to gain predictive insight and competitive advantage for achieving high performance results.

Complex problems often do not have simple solutions, some may look simple, but there is a lot of effort needed to put in. Problems that arise in organizations are almost always the product of interactions of parts, never the action of a single part. So, addressing the correct need is what determines the right problem and solves them effectively. The goal is to pursue an optimal solution to fix the real problem and reach higher than expected results .

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Illustrateripeness

Organization can -reach the stage of - ripeness when it - acts as an organic system, continues evolving, innovating..

A fruit is mature when-

it is ripened,

ready for consumption.


When a person knows-

the rules of life,

being cultivated to-

great levels of -

capabilities,

tastes -

sweetness & bitterness,

failure and success,

the person becomes -

fully developed, ripened,

to achieve high- maturity,

in the role, proficiently.

Ecosystem is-

dynamic;

organization can -

reach the stage of -

ripeness when it -

acts as an organic system,

continues evolving, innovating,

with the right appetite to -

embrace changes,

tolerate risks,

build differential competency to-

accelerate performance,

structurally.

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Initiatelearninglogic

People with learning agility, demonstrate the following traits, to adapt to the twenty-first-century business realities.

High organizational learning relates to high response in recognizing and addressing system constraints, and adapting 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.

        

Learning Logic

InnerconnectivelogicOrganizations today are hyper-connected and interdependent, to build an information-based society, organizations have to be linked to the many and varying touchpoints between itself and its ecosystem environment.

Initiatelogicalunderstanding Business world becomes over-complex and hyper-connected, logic enables us to uncover patterns and understand the cause-effect and interconnectivity of related issues underneath the surface. The digital leaders and professionals today need to be in a continuous learning mode, develop strong logic skills, to infer and defer, preliminarily understand the extent of any problems or conditions, grasp truths, facts, meanings, or relationships in order to handle varying complex issues effectively.

InitategenerativelearningLearning is a constant process; the professional workforce today needs to become self-driven, must have the attitude to keep learning, Generative learning is the learning style that enhances the capacity to create”; not only absorb knowledge, but generate new knowledge, design fresh concepts, and come up with creative ideas constantly.

Innovativelearning We live in the information and knowledge economy, continuous learning is not only a requirement but also a great habit to keep the business professionals mind fresh, knowledge updated, skills relevant, etc. An organization's philosophies, core values, and organizational objectives drive learning and development.

Innovativelearningcycles In face of overwhelming growth of information and increasing pace of changes, learning needs to become a crucial component in professional development, or leadership grooming in order to keep their mind open; make their skills updated and continue to build the dynamic professional competency to compete for the future. In fact, learning agility is the fundamental requirement for all digital professionals. Learning is the key to move forward, address any future potential challenges and issues with more confidence. How to shift from the reactive learning mentality to proactive learning habit, and enhance a few crucial learning-growth-innovation cycles smoothly.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 7 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 for human progression.

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Initiativesofpersonalization

The goal of all businesses is to generate revenue, increase net-new business value, enlarge their customer shares, and monetize their core competencies.

Business is nowadays complex, uncertainty of outcomes or occurrences is inherent in numerous business endeavors or societal movements. It’s critical to perceive problems multidimensionally, especially from the outside-in customers’ perspective, manage business initiatives steadily by optimizing the value of information while minimizing risks. The logical scenario and quality information are needed to measure well-defined goals for achieving tangible results consistently. 

It’s important to take initiatives for producing customized solutions by leveraging quality information, with the direction of the enterprise's strategy: Business nowadays is complex, information-based business initiative management makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business such as customer experience optimization, sales/marketing exploration; working force planning & management, etc. Information is the most invaluable asset besides people. You have to listen to the system data from the outside in and bottom up analytically. In order to manage business initiatives successfully, logical scenarios and different information are needed to realize the strategy and achieve high performance results.

Organizations need to identify critical pieces of information for connecting wider dots to spur innovation and accelerating idea validation. They are able to strike the right balance of innovation and information analysis; process and flexibility. Business management needs to improve their information fluency by allowing information flow across the functional boundary. The abundance of information flow and the more advanced technologies make it possible to gain real-time customer insight and business foresight if organizations are truly being digitized underneath, at the process level. This helps to identify root causes to negative complexity with the objective of driving simplicity, optimizing business management constantly.

It is important to convince the shareholders of new initiatives with solid business justification: Nowadays, velocity and uncertainty are digital new normal. The challenge is to prioritize what you know about and keep an eye open for signs of things you don't know about. Any business initiatives, especially change should be viewed as an "opportunity" for solving business problems. The business executives’ sponsorship is crucial for the success of business initiatives. It’s also important to show varying stakeholders the potential business benefits to meet the strategic goal of the company.

When there is an intentional strategy in place to not only increase awareness but to link the power of people-centricity to key business initiatives, and clarify business justification, organizations are able to trend the future with clarity and solve critical business problems with priority. The objective of portfolio management is to provide visibility of business initiatives that are supporting the company's strategic objectives and assess opportunities to realign resources and investments as appropriate, to accelerate holistic business performance.

The collections of IT-driven business initiatives and programs help the company achieve its targeted performance: IT is the linchpin to run a real time intelligent organization. To maximize IT-driven business value, IT and business have to speak the common language and communicate empathetically for improving the growth capacity and maturity of the business. The more stakeholders can impact IT-enabled business initiatives capable of seriously affecting their work or lives, the better chance the change will achieve or exceed the expectations.

It’s the co-responsibility of business and IT to keep consolidating, modernizing, integrating, and optimizing the application portfolio, helping the enterprise manage components that are common and reusable across the enterprise to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. IT has to oversee the full set of business requirements to ensure business cohesiveness and to determine all the customers, stakeholders and obtain their involvement, to make better investment justification and improve IT-driven business initiative success rate.

The goal of all businesses is to generate revenue, increase net-new business value, enlarge their customer shares, and monetize their core competencies. The management needs to evaluate whether they have common values and a dynamic business management that takes into account initial business investments, customers, economical cycles, market shifts to ensure business long term value generation.

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Initiateinterdisicplinarylogic

People, organizations and societies are all integral systems that are defined by components and their compositions, and show the interconnectivity between parts and the whole.

Systems Thinking is about understanding interrelationships between parts and the whole. It helps digital leaders and professionals discover the interconnectivity and interdependence of the digital business ecosystem, help them get behind the "surface" validity and give them deeper insight into the nuances of why and how, and ensure that the digital business as an organic system is growing and evolving with its environment in harmony.

 

Interdisciplinary Logic & Views

Initiateinterdisciplinaryview With the rapid growth of information, change is continuously happening and spiraling up in such a dynamic environment. Whether we can set a progressive tone to make a transition from survival to thriving depends on how we make the mind shift to behavior shift.

Interdisciplinarylogic Given the complexity, interdependence, and uncertainty of the business world, more often than not, lack of knowledge and scarcity of insight lead to ineffectiveness of organizational change.

Initiatelogicalunderstanding Business world becomes over-complex and hyper-connected, logic enables us to uncover patterns and understand the cause-effect and interconnectivity of related issues underneath the surface. The digital leaders and professionals today need to be in a continuous learning mode, develop strong logic skills, to infer and defer, preliminarily understand the extent of any problems or conditions, grasp truths, facts, meanings, or relationships in order to handle varying complex issues effectively.

Initiativesoflogicizing The business world is diverse, nonlinear, and ambiguous today, the multifaceted perspectives unfold into a wider multi-dimensionally enhancing business growth & balance continuum As organizations or human societies turn to be more hyper-connected, and interdependent. Business logic becomes nonlinear, organizational leaders and professionals apply a multidimensional thinking box to understand business context and sustain diversified viewpoints into holistic perspectives without enlarging decision gaps and causing too many side effects. As a matter of fact, running an effective business is fundamentally about how to apply logic to solve problems, large or small on a daily basis, enhance business growth and balance cycles smoothly.

Innovationinitiatives Running a business is about creating multifaceted value and moving forward. The very goal of business initiative management is to set the right priority, align key success factors of the business, such as talent, resource, process, capability, capacity to build organizational capability for achieving business value.

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 for human progression.

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Illustratepeace

Let go of -the emotion instead of- clinging to it; let go of -trivial issues,stay focused on -crucial things…

Holiday season is -

a peaceful time to-

reflect, recharge, renew;

being at peace with -

self, is when-

one’s thoughts, feelings, actions 

are aligned, holistically;

with a positive culmination of -

walking the talk,

effortlessly.



A peaceful mind is -

not a matter of doing,

but of being;

a peaceful mind has -

the real enlightenment to -

unify brain and heart,

introspectively.

Isn’t a peaceful mind like -

a calm sea,

open, but not overwhelming;

profound, but not intimidating;

blue, but not sorrow;

quiet, but not depressing;

it keeps flowing, cleansing, evolving,

harmoniously?


Let go of -

the emotion instead of-

clinging to it;

let go of -

trivial issues,

stay focused on -

crucial things;

go deep within oneself to -

reduce distress;

brighten shadows;

keep-

the peace of mind,

be cool-headed,

proactively.

Peace is -

a reality achieved through-

understanding harmony,

in the Universe,

super consciously.

It does not happen,

every day,

but it should happen,

during this holiday;

are we-

comfortable with ourselves,

learning to -

be so with others, 

as well;

to co-shape our world as-

a peaceful place,

to live, forever?

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Innovation

A truly innovative "story of the future" can literally spur creativity and catalyze transformative changes.

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 & authenticity: Authenticity is the original force to boost creativity, and creativity is an art to convey authenticity. Being authentic means to be who you are, be yourself; keep discovering yourself – your natural talent, innate drive, creative novelty, as a unique being, see all the different parts of oneself and how they operate to develop creativity. It has to do with discovering that source within and bringing it out into the world, keeping ideas flowing frictionlessly. When you are authentic, keep minds flowing, release creative energy, out of this comes a beautiful thing -plenty of seeds of creativity, the freedom of choice.

In fact, innovation competency developed based on authenticity and natural talent via a series of activities and resources make people feel more confident and effortless to inspire innovation. An open mind leads to innovation for societal advancement. Innovators have the ability to think about the past, perceive what is now and foresee the future in pursuit of innovative advancement. The angle from which they view innovation determines how they identify and categorize similarities and differences among the many faces of creativity, in order to amplify innovation impact holistically.

Innovation & advancement: Innovation is not for its own sake, but for advancing humanity globally. Innovation today asks for a more advanced mindset, global consciousness, and cognitive intelligence, etc. The most advanced mind with great vision is the one which relates itself to a purpose greater than itself, and contributes to the collective human progress in pursuit of advancement.

The advancement can become more reachable when we appreciate each other’s strength, share each others’ viewpoint, complement each other’s capability; understand each other empathetically. In fact, the advanced mind is the brainpower and driving force behind any kind of societal advancement. It’s always important to set principles for building common ground, and lifting each other via mutual trust. The advanced innovation journey gets to the inflection point when you not only absorb knowledge, but also criticize old knowledge, co-create new knowledge, develop creativity and nurture innovation.

Innovation & aptitude: Human Being is a combination of intelligence and emotion or in simpler terms core aptitude and layers of attitude. Aptitude implies intelligence & logic which decides what is right for innovation. The aptitude of innovators can be demonstrated by their cognitive intelligence, learning agility, and problem-solving competency. Innovation aptitude is important because innovators are truth-seeking, willing to change their views and are accountable for solving a set of problems creatively.

In the organizational setting, business innovation can amplify its effect by manifesting creativity from an individual endeavor to a collective team effort, and expand the horizon of innovation. Highly innovative organizations are better equipped to manage innovation by allocating time and resources to the people in charge. Thus, collaboratively, innovation aptitude is based on the overall business competency to manage innovation with a set of methodological platforms, processes, tools, structures, and talent, allowing businesses to clarify the logic of sequence and consequence for improving innovation excellence.

From the past to the present, strong innovation leaders create momentum, lead the world forward with leapfrogging transformation. A truly innovative "story of the future" can literally spur creativity and catalyze transformative changes. The theme of innovation is the theme of organizational evolution. The contemporary society is a hyper-connected and interdependent ecosystem that can synchronize its functions and parts, release creative energy, create synergy, and make advanced movement in a consistent way.

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Isn't holiday a right timing to reflect, renew creative spirit?

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; influence and innovation. 

The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about leadership maturity, and summarize five emergent digital leadership trends Here is the monthly tuning of digital leadership.

    Innovate and Influence with Benevolence

InitiateleadershipbenevolenceinfluenceIt’s time for holiday celebration, it’s also a time to ponder deeper about leadership in a hyper-connected environment with interdependent global dynamic, hybrid diversity.

Innovateviakindness: The holiday season is the time to reflect and refresh, it is also the time to share and give. But doing a few good deeds is just the practice to be kind. True kindness is the state of mind. As the digital leaders and professionals today, how can you connect the dots between kindness vs. toughness, and let kindness flow from the bottom of your heart and the top of your mind?

Innovativegloballeadership We live in a global society with enriched knowledge and talent diversity, the variety of perspectives opens our mind, and harnesses the values that each of us can bring to the table.

Innovation The pace of change is significantly increasing, being innovative is the cognitive mind with the multifaceted thought process that holds onto its natural connectivity. Innovation is the only path and the core activity of human evolution to changing the environment for unlocking performance, for profit, and for customer satisfaction, etc. the wider dots you can connect, the fresher ideas keep emerging.

Innovateviaappreciation It’s time to reflect on the spirit of the holiday, appreciate many things you do -read, think, understand, reflect, practice deliberately; appreciate all good, beauty, and harmonized things at an influential level; appreciate fresh ideas, deep insight; compelling stories, which all bring us something special.

The “Future of CIO” blog has reached 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 for human progression.

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