Unprofessionalism

Digital enlarges the thinking and capability gaps because different organizations, functions, and individuals evolve with varying speed.

"Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. 

Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the gap of opportunity between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a stepwise approach to make a leap of digital transformation.

           Unprofessionalism

Unprofessioalismcharacteristics The business environment is full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity, high professionalism is an important quality for today’s multigenerational, multicultural and multi-devicing workforce, and it is a foundation to shape growth mindsets, cultivate open-minded leadership, nurture culture of learning and positive atmosphere with intellectual stimulation, to both unleash employees’ potential and drive organizational maturity seamlessly.

Unprofessional Culture? Culture is the collective mindset, attitude, habit and corporate DNA. Most companies have trouble seeing their own culture as they are so immersed in it. Culture can lift their organization up to the next level of growth cycle or sink the business slowly. In fact, organizational culture could be one of the most invisible and intimidating factors to influence their organization’s future.

Unprofessionalism With rapid changes and exponential growth of information, it doesn’t mean if you had a profession, you would automatically be a well-respected professional with high professionalism. Unprofessionalism leads to outdated thinking, misjudgment, drives ineffective decisions, inconsistent actions, and further causes fragility and stagnation.

Incoherentpseudo The speed of change is accelerated, organizations large or small spend significant time and resources to deal with radical transformation or small changes such as adopting a new software application. There are many views to understand change, and there is no one size fits all formula to pursue it. Incoherent management approaches with following symptoms cause friction and business stagnation.

Unhealthycompetitions The goals or motivation behind competition can be unhealthy and the competitive arena can produce a myriad of unwise mentality and negative externalities. How to encourage professionalism and healthy competitions for innovative problems-solving and transformative changes?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 7 million page views with about #9000th blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.


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"Digital Gaps" Chapter 1 Cognitive Gaps


"Digital Gaps" Chapter 2 Leadership Gaps


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"Digital Gaps" Chapter 5 Professional Gaps


Conclusion: Bridging Gaps to Catalyze Digital Maturity

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