The “Grip” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2020

Think of the five fingers of the human hand. Without their differences in size, shape, and location, a grip wouldn’t have been perfect as destined by nature.

"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 “Grip” quotes in “Digital Master.”



1 When in the grip of the creative urge, there is no thought of self, no ego, just keep your mind flowing frictionlessly.

2 Think of the five fingers of the human hand. Without their differences in size, shape, and location, a grip wouldn’t have been perfect as destined by nature.

3 So, get on board, grab hands and we all make it up the hill. If you keep dragging your feet you may lose your grip on things and fall off the mountain.

4 The facts say that most big projects are losing budgetary grip and that the estimates didn´t take into account those slippages at estimation time. In hindsight, we will always find an explanation for the failure.

5 Our tendency to get attached to these poor choices, an outcome that is the result of another set of biased cognitive processes leading to more problems, when uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity are all today’s digital normality. Getting a grip on this "flaw" in what was for eons considered a well-designed system may be the main accomplishment of the next century.

6 If you analyze understanding, you will find that it exists in two words. Under and Stand. Its origin is from a practical idea in masonry where the mason after finishing the first floor stands under the structure and decides if the structure is strong or has enough grip for additional floors.

7 Mastering what instincts are, how they function and how they interact with human intellect and jointly command everything we do would enable one to consciously manage this subconscious mental trend, defuse this constant and subtle inner conflict to free their intelligence from the tight grip of their instincts and allow their intelligence to become fully functional and fruitful, and transcendent into wisdom.

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