Thursday, August 17, 2017

The New Book “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” Conclusion: Build an Inquisitive Digital Board

Digital board directors are independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.

Organizations today have to live up with the business dynamic which is uncertain, ambiguous, complex and flux. The board of directors as the de facto guardian of modern organizations has an important role to play in steering the organization toward the uncharted water and blurring business territories. To improve directorship effectiveness, the corporate directors are senior leaders, shall they ask or answer questions? How shall they ask good and pertinent questions for governing changes and driving digital transformation? And how to build an inquisitive digital board to get digital ready?


An inquisitive board sets the tone for building the culture of innovation: Asking the right questions helps to validate how thoroughly and deeply the board is thinking on a particular issue, avoids group thinking and sets the tone for building the culture of innovation. Because the great questions lead to creative problem-solving and innovative solutions, it challenges conventional thinking, removes negative self-talk; great open questions stimulate proactive interactions no matter what is the situation, eliminates blind spots and leverages intuitive listening to capture the important information for decision-making.


An inquisitive board is composed of exceptional board directors with high-intellectual curiosity: This inquisitive board directors present strong digital leadership traits such as critical thinking, creativity, influence, and digital fluency. They practice directorship based on the breadth of business knowledge and in-depth expertise of their domain, help to connect the wider dots and accelerate digital transformation.


An inquisitive board presents the right dose of skepticism and provides valuable outlier’s perspective: Digital board directors are independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days. Knowledge is important, but more than that is complete awareness of what is happening in the context, and be skeptical of “we always do things like that,” mentality. The exceptional board directors also have strong innovation skills to deal with situations that they have not dealt with before and possess the confidence and the experience to set the entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial spirit of growth and change.



There is the time to ask, and there is the time to answer. In the face of vast areas of unknowns, digital board directors are the mastermind and social influencer for advocating innovation and catalyzing digital transformation.



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