The “Contemporary” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2020

Change is a vital element for the contemporary organization to stay competitive, and transformation is a radical change.

"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 “Contemporary” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 Digital CIOs need to master all styles of conversations targeting different audiences to develop situational wisdom, amplify their contemporary leadership voice and enforce their influential competency.

2 The digital principle of building a contemporary board needs to be open-minded, foresightful, changeable, knowledgeable, innovative and committed.

3 Change is a vital element for the contemporary organization to stay competitive, and transformation is a radical change.

4 Nowadays, with fast-paced changes and overwhelming growth of information, contemporary business executives face many leadership dilemmas: Being sustainable or disrupted, keeping status quo or innovative, etc.

5 Contemporary CIOs are expected to play multiple personas and need to wear many hats to lead effectively.

6 The contemporary corporate boards need to focus on both performance and compliance, monitoring business performance and improving management effectiveness.

7 Contemporary CIOs need to be "whole-brainers” ideally, or you may say being logic in your mind based on your years of engineering training/experiences., etc. but being creative in your heart, dream big, or think big.

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