The Best “Vulnerability” Quotes of “Digital Master” Dec. 2019

 In the spirit of 'being the change," you need to be vulnerable to hearing the ideas challenged from a viewpoint different than your own. The vulnerability is key!

“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 “Vulnerability” quotes in “Digital Master.”



1 The inevitable range, breadth, depth, and pace of uncontrollable factors acting on any organizations mean identifying business vulnerability and constant fine-tuning is essential to improve business adaptability, performance, and maturity.

2 Often, the homogeneous team setting will make team numbers more vulnerable to peer pressure and make biased decisions.

3 Vulnerability, generosity, respecting differences and a willingness to have ideas challenged seem to be in short supply in that neck of the woods!

4 Ineffective decision-making, especially at the strategic level will make their business vulnerable to emerging events, the ever-expanded business ecosystem or even mislead their business in the wrong direction.

5 The larger the organization and inputs are, the larger the amount of 'rules' are necessary for its functions, to keep dependent variables and outputs delivery stable. If not handled well, organizations are overly rigid, inflexible and become so vulnerable to the dynamic business environment.

6 People focus on learning opportunities offered by assignments and developing their professional competency. So, the company can strengthen the weakest link, handle business vulnerability and deal with either internal or external risk effectively in order to achieve the long term business advantage.

7 In the spirit of 'being the change," you need to be vulnerable to hearing the ideas challenged from a viewpoint different than your own. The vulnerability is key!

8 The complication of traditional organizations caused by over-layering, rigid hierarchies, fractal structure, or the machine-like operational model with a kind of reductionism, mechanism, or approximation, etc, could make the business vulnerable in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of digital new normal.

9 For so long, we have been taught to not show weakness or 'fake it till you make it' and while the origin of these adages may have been positive, it can be difficult to show a willingness to be vulnerable and admit that we may not know all of the answers.

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