“Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital leaders who have multi-layer, multi-level quotients and skills can amplify their leadership influence.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The “artificial gap” between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovative CIOs with bold leadership styles are the key to re-imagine IT for achieving the art of possible.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“CIOs are in the unique position to oversee the business from different angles, they can have the multitude of business views to… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both “sense and sensitivity” to understand people and lead effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“CIOs need to lead the department with the balanced mindsets, activities, and speed so that every level of the organization has great… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT leadership needs to shift from “surviving to striving to thriving” mode; IT also needs to shift from “controlling to change to… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today’s business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Practicing entrepreneurship in IT starts with the outlier leadership and builds an innovative culture - the collective attitude to experiment better ways… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is that you need to define the quality as leadership and quality as management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIO needs to be the proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Leadership is not a setting-hour work, but a continuous self-awareness, self-motivation, and self-mastery journey.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The top leaders such as CIOs have to be fluent in both business and IT dialogues, and switch them back and forth… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Today’s CIOs have multiple rules to play and take broader leadership responsibilities in transforming their organization.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Modern CIOs as “Chief Interaction Officers,” can master how to well manage different dimensions of relationship to improve leadership effectiveness.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“By manifesting creativity from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, the horizon of creativity is expanded.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The great communication is not to create more gaps but to bridge the difference and encourage creativity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image