Friday, February 7, 2020

The Best “Generalist” Quotes of “Digital Master” Feb, 2020

 The global executives are business generalists who demand more comprehensive skills in leadership, strategic thinking, cognitive intelligence, empathy, relationship building and management, crisis management and public relations, etc.

"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 “Generalist” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 Digital leaders are specialized generalists who present hybrid talent and versatile leadership capability.

2 Top executives as business generalist should continue to sharpen leadership/ management skills, though some of the traits needed cannot be learned in a training course, they have to be developed via introspection, practicing and experimenting, such as entrepreneurial spirit, strong work ethic, leading by example, etc.

3 Put simply, board directors today need to be the specialized business generalist with “T” shaped talent who can give an insightful overview, but also "drill down" into some specific topics with significant details.

4 Regardless of background, a great IT leader is a specialized generalist with hybrid talent, a technological visionary and a business strategist, understand both business & IT, and bridge the gaps effectively.

5 The global executives are business generalists who demand more comprehensive skills in leadership, strategic thinking, cognitive intelligence, empathy, relationship building and management, crisis management and public relations, etc.

6 Specialized IT Generalists are people with the mix of technical, business and leadership skills that are so critical for management and senior leadership positions in today’s IT organizations, as the pool of talent with business savvy and tech knowledge will be drawn dry quickly

7 Top business leaders are the generalists with a strong understanding of the context, have a strong desire to learn, succeed and connect with people and master as many skills as possible to move beyond their comfort zone,

8 Ideally, a "generic" leader is a specialized generalist: they should have the breadth of leadership skills and wisdom to handle many situations, but also have “T-Shaped” knowledge to practice “expert power” for enforcing leadership effectiveness.

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