Innateprofundity

Learning knowledge is just the first step, to develop profound insight, you should connect dots at interdisciplinary domains, and co-create new knowledge to solve emergent problems.

The world becomes over-complex and interdependent; in order to make sound judgment and solve problems effectively, business professionals need to observe, perceive, and pay attention to the myriad of internal, external, forces that define and influence the way we do business these days. They should become more profound, to dig into the root causes of issues, read between the lines, see around the corner, communicate empathetically, and deal with varying circumstances thoughtfully.

Interdisciplinary understanding: The hyper-connectivity nature of the business environment breaks down the functional, geographical, or organizational, or even industrial border, businesses today become much more nonlinear, interconnected, and interdependent than ever. Business professionals today have to keep expanding their thinking box, deepening their understanding of existing or emerging problems, digging underneath the symptoms, clarifying the cause-effect, and improving decision effectiveness. Understanding problems profoundly means seeing the context you are part of, identifying the leverage points and then choosing the decisive factors, taking acute awareness of present contextual variables, seeking fresh knowledge and unique insight.

When you gain new knowledge and when you change your understanding of the past, new possibilities and interpretations of them emerge in the future. To overcome unconscious bias or break down outdated common belief, contextualization is a great way to overcome bias by appreciating different viewpoints. Profound understanding based on contextualization aids us in knowing what’s relevant and what’s not, improves perception intelligence to gain a holistic perspective of situations; collect constructive feedback, take end to end response, a structural approach to handle problems logically and come up with a premium solution.

Uncompromised substances: The maturity of digital professionalism depends on a number of factors such as cognitive abilities, professional attitude, interdisciplinary knowledge and experience, recombined capabilities, and emotional excellence, etc. The substances of leadership are all about vision, influence, fairness, and progression. Profundity as one of the crucial characteristics of high mature leadership and professionalism implies uncompromised substances – shaping a clear vision, challenging common beliefs or conventional wisdom, making fair judgment, and deepening influence.

Being profound means objective perception, empathetic communication, emotional excellence as well. Being psychological enlightened is good, but having the overdosed emotion or irrational exuberance often causes misjudgment and decision ineffectiveness. Multidimensional thinking or cross-boundary experiences are great to improve professional profundity in a more volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, hyper-connected and globally distributed world as you need a directional guide, the variety of perspectives opens minds, bridge culture differences, harnesses the values that each of us can bring to the table, unify the diverse perspective into a unified vision for driving desired change steadfastly.

Profundity is not for its own sake, but to be more persuasive, insightful, or influential: Learning knowledge is just the first step, to develop profound insight, you should connect dots at interdisciplinary domains, and co-create new knowledge to solve emergent problems. You become wise when you are deep enough to get the essence of things; humble enough to be aware of and admit what you don't know and share what you know; and bring wisdom in the workplace.

Being profound is also about balance, upon striking the right balance without any sort of extreme thinking or unconscious bias; being confident and humble, being passionate and cool-headed; being hard-working and effortless, self-worth and the worth of others, to reach the deep state of consciousness. The more you know, the more you know you don’t know and admit the unknown unknown. Profound thinkers are open and deep, able to leverage multiple thinking processes in dealing with varying situations and solve problems wisely.

If you only read the content without contextual understanding, you are not profound; if you only listen to the one side of the story without pondering the other side, you are not profound; if you blindly follow common sense or conventional wisdom only, you are not profound; The maturity of both individuals and an organization as a whole depends on how thoughtful they are - to make sound judgment; and how profoundly they can dig - to gain the insight or cure the root cause of complex problems, and how influential they are – to bring up the change they want to see. Regardless of which stage you are at the career cycle, forethoughtful leaders or professionals should continue learning, innovating or influencing to enhance upcycle of professionalism.

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