The Popular Quotes about “Digital CIO Leadership” in “Digital Master” Book Series

“Being an innovative CIO means learning fast, being inclusive, embracing multiple viewpoints and taking calculated risks.”

"Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (25+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide the insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of popular quotes about digital CIO leadership in “Digital Master” book series.

59 “IT leadership needs to shift from “surviving to striving to thriving” mode; IT also needs to shift from “controlling to change to innovate.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

60 “CIOs are fluent in both business language and IT terminology to ensure the seamless cross-functional communication without “lost in translation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

61 “The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.”

― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

62 “The top leaders such as CIOs have to be fluent in both business and IT dialogues and switch them back and forth without “lost in translation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

63 “The CIO as “Chief Interpretation Officer” is the new digital leadership perspective of harnessing communication and people-centricity for accelerating digital transformation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

64 “Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

65 “Being an innovative CIO means learning fast, being inclusive, embracing multiple viewpoints and taking calculated risks.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

66 “Digital CIOs shouldn’t classify creativity and logic as two completely different disciplines; they are interconnected and need to be mixed seamlessly.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

67 “Innovative CIOs with bold leadership styles are the key to re-imagine IT for achieving the art of possible.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

68 “Modern CIOs as “Chief Interaction Officers,” can master how to well manage different dimensions of relationship to improve leadership effectiveness.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vision and well-crafted digital strategy; they are courageous to be in the vanguard of digital transformation with a quantum lead. But they also proactively develop more advanced and unique digital capabilities step-by-step and build a digital premium into their very foundation of business, such as digital thinking, culture, agility, intelligence, and structure, and they achieve high performing results through strong digital governance discipline and reach its zenith as the digital world continues to expand and diversify. At the individual level, Digital Masters are those cross-generational digital professionals who are equipped with the advanced digital minds and build a unique set of digital capabilities, climb to the top of Maslow’s Pyramid 2.0.

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