The Best “Autonomy” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

High level of autonomy is the symbol of the digital maturity.

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Autonomy” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 Digital transformation is the movement from static to flow, process driven to capability oriented, silo to holistic, command & control to autonomy, etc.

2 Digital means the increasing pace of changes and continuous disruption. High level of autonomy is the symbol of the digital maturity.

3 The new paradigm that is emerging is a digital organization that is more responsive, holistic, vibrant, autonomous, innovative, and above all enhances and supports the living organization.

4 Running a self-autonomous organization is about empowerment and trust, with the ultimate goal to improve business efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, and performance.

5 Self-organization is a natural human activity, and autonomy further stimulates creativity.

6 Running an autonomous organization is to improve business efficiency, productivity, innovativeness, responsiveness, and flexibility.

7 To run a self-autonomous business, self-leadership is the first step, that means leaders need to lead themselves first, define leadership strength, exemplify leadership quality, amplify leadership influence, and practice leadership disciplines.

8 The digital leader’s role is to empower their people to reach their full potential by building a work atmosphere to encourage creativity, autonomy, and mastery.

9 The point is that change never ends with increasing pace, thus, digital organizations simply cannot stand still, they need to be like the self-driving vehicle to catch up with the speed of change; they should also like the living systems, keep growing, otherwise, they would become irrelevant sooner or later.

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