Pearl Zhu Quotes

Creativity is not a "thing," it's a process that happens as a proactive mental activity to a problem.

A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.

Being inclusive means to appreciate differences and enjoy the diverse viewpoints.

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards.

Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.

The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.

A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.

The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.

Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation.

Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.

Digital boards should set the tone for talent development and management.

Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think "harder" via different thought processes.

Culture is the organization's fingerprint.

IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode.

Creativity is utilizing both sides of the brain simultaneously - creative + activity.

To make change sustain, the important thing is "end-to-end" performance.

Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.

IT more often needs to play a pivotal role in discovering the path to strategy implementation.

Compliance" is just a subset of "governance" and not the other way around.

To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.

The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability.

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.

IT needs to be the super-glue to bridge business silos and enable holistic decision-making.

Do not take "ivory tower" style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.

Innovation shouldn't be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.

The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.

Independent directors practice independent thinking.

Judgment and decision making are often considered together.

Silo builds the wall in people's minds and creates the barrier in organizations' "hearts.

A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving.

Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.

People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.

Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations.

Today's digital organizations simply just can't stand still. Bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge.

The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.

An organizational structure carries inherent capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame.

Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.

The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employee' brainpower.

Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.

High mature digital organizations have high-mature digital capabilities not only to implement the digital strategy but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation.

The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum.

At the core," means," is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.

A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.

First, measure the right things, and then measure them right.

Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.

The capability view can leverage different perspectives from different roles.

Change Agents have a "learning wheel" in their mind.

The foremost thing is to realize that IT is strategic at board level.

It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without highly competitive talent.

The quality of assessors is critical to the quality of the assessment result.

IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.

You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.

Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively.

A benchmarking mind is an "interpreter" mind which can bridge the gaps.

It takes a lot of energy to break old habits and outdated thought processes.

Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.

The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.

Corporation performance Management is all about managing performance by that data (KPIs) which really matters.

Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.

A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age.

The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.

The fitting BoD is less about physical strength, more about mental toughness, with fitting minds and fresh eyes.

Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making.

The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance.

Asking insightful and pertinent questions is critical for governing changes at the board-level.

Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult.

Outlier" CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.

Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the "switch" is on and the connection is made

Systems Thinking provides the more holistic way to view the problems

The BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every dip in the business life cycle.

The digital paradigm that is emerging is the dynamic organization with hybridity of knowledge, flexible processes, and unique competencies.

Vision is not fiction; fiction could be a pure imagination; vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.

The right set of unique digital capabilities directly decides the overall organization's competency and growth potential, to build high-effective, high-responsive, high-intelligent and high mature digital organization.

Out of Box" is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.

Don't just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.

Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.

Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.

Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.

The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.

The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.

Agile is more a "direction," than an "end," a philosophy and mindset at board level.

An individual's agility is a fundamental digital capability block through which she or he can build more advanced professional capabilities and better fit in the digital dynamic we live in.

The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.

Every person is unique, put the right people with the right capability to the right position to solve the right problems.

The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance.

A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness" of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.

Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.

Having healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - increased perspective, less prejudgment, and looking at things from different angles.

Systems Thinkers shape a worldview based on the realization of interconnectedness.

Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.

Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.

Digital fit" should be first defined as "mind fit," and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.

Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.

Learning is the way to keep your mind flowing, and hence your life flowing