The Best “Wholeness” Quotes of “Digital Master” Nov. 2019

Start with the mediating systemic wholeness with which you experience, remember, know, think, imagine, evaluate, intend, and engage the rest of the intrinsic unity that is the whole.

"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 “Wholeness” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 The interaction between what is within us (the self), and how we project to the exterior world is the bridge to achieving wholeness.

2 In the ancient human history, the wholeness was the focal point of either Eastern or Western philosophy; in the modern era, the pendulum swung toward scientific analysis and reductionistic separations throughout the scientific era.

3 When you think of the wholeness ("holism" from holos=wholeness) as a system of systems, boundaries make sense. You'll never manage to grasp the wholeness without splitting it into several sub-systems. It's where reductionism and holism come together into one.

4 Innovation leads us to the understanding of wholeness, since innovation (the practical application of creativity) is essentially about problem-solving at various levels, and to solve a problem implies a wish to make something, or everything, better. That, in itself, seems to lead to a wish for understanding the wholeness.

5 We should spend much more time exploring how we acquire knowledge and we build all different LENSES to see the world (the “holos,” the “wholeness”), to understand each other, the businesses and the world holistically.

6 Start with the mediating systemic wholeness with which you experience, remember, know, think, imagine, evaluate, intend, and engage the rest of the intrinsic unity that is the whole.

7 This digital wholeness comprises various media that are each functionally contrary to the unitive, fluid and seamless nature of the whole, it’s about seeing interrelationships rather than isolated things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots.”

8 Holistic management (a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) is about applying systems thinking to manage resources, recognizing initiatives which take a comprehensive, anticipatory, design approach to radically advance human well-being and the health of business ecosystems.

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