Celebrate 5500 Blog Posting: Blog the Way to Lead Digital Transforamtion

Blogging is just like you are designing and making your own jigsaw puzzles, to symbolize your own professional or life journey. 
It’s time to celebrate the #5500 blog posting. Blogging is to pursue the digital way to communicate for envisioning, brainstorming, sharing, debating, and making a continuous delivery by practicing thought leadership and spurring creativity. It’s like writing a dynamic book which reflects your vision, character, personality, expertise, and uniqueness, not as a snapshot, but as a cohesive flow. It’s not just about writing, but about thinking and conveying proficient messages for driving changes and reaching professional maturity.

Blogging is for growth and sharing: Blogging is like growing a robust tree with thousands of fruits on it. The tree is the symbol of the dynamic life; the shape of the tree helps us vividly visualize the mental representation of our human minds, metaphorically. Digital means change, with the exponential growth of information and abundant knowledge, digital professionals today have to consume, comment and create content while mastering the subject matter and practice expert power respectively. They should also connect, collect, and collaborate in keeping their minds growing and their knowledge updated. Do not just sit at the shade of others' tree, but grow yours as well. Just like continually growing a strong tree, blogging is for growth and sharing. The insight of your message is like the root of the tree, the deeper you can penetrate, the stronger the tree could grow, the broader and deeper influence it brings...

Blogging is for brainstorming and convergence: Blogging is also like creating many live streams or running rivers, keep flowing, keep opening, keep cleansing; keep touching, and to prepare for merging into the knowledge sea. It’s the continuous brainstorming, which allows the mind to seek new possibilities or emergent trends, helps to move from mind SET to mind FLOW, from fixed mind to growth mind, from static mind to open mind. Blogging is a creative activity to brainstorm, update knowledge, converge multidisciplinary understanding, convey insight and share wisdom. It is also an effective practice to build the distinctive leadership “hardcore,” and make a continuous leadership influence. “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” - Peter Drucker.

Blogging Is for advocating, creating and driving changes: Blogging is just like you are designing and making your own jigsaw puzzles, to symbolize your own professional or life journey. In the beginning, you might not know what is exactly the big picture, you have to keep imagining and creating. You feel confused and don’t know how to get started, but it is an exciting adventure, also takes a lot of hard work. There are so many pieces with blended colors and shapes. You have to take a guess, connect the dots, match the colors, and give different things a try. The more pieces you're creating and sorting through, the more clear the big picture becomes. You become enthusiastic about the new design, the new knowledge, the vivid picture, and the journey…

Either individually or collectively, digital leaders and professionals today need to become more responsive, holistic, driven, intelligent, vibrant, creative, ambidextrous, and above all thrive in the sea of changes. Leadership strength needs to be built via continuous practices, and professional competencies are interrelated with the traits and expertise. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content do take time for digesting, contemplation, and engaging. May the "Future of CIO" blog become the symbol of growth, creativity, and insight.

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