Tuesday, June 19, 2018

To Celebrate the 4800th Blog Posting: The Thoughts and Quotes of the “Future of CIO” Blog

Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.

Blogging is to pursue the digital communication way of envisioning, brainstorming, sharing, and debating. It’s the journey to make the continuous leadership influence and connect the dots for spurring creativity and advocating digital innovation. It’s the time to celebrate the #4800th blog posting of the “Future of CIO."






1 “Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.”


Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future

2 “Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.”

Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future


3 “Critical Thinking brings insight into the situation.”

Pearl Zhu, 100 Digital Rules


4 “Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today.”

Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity


5 “Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.”

Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards


6 “Sense and deal with problems in their smallest state, before they grow bigger and become fatal.”

Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards


7 “The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.”

Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business


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

Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future


9 “IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.”


Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices


10 “Creativity is about thinking beyond conventional wisdom.”

Pearl Zhu, 100 Digital Rules


The digital era has the “VUCA” characteristics: Velocity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. We are living in a complex world where inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have a complete knowledge and understanding of any issue individually. Therefore, today’s contemporary digital leaders and professionals must keep learning, adapting, innovating, and practicing on the daily basis for developing differentiated competency.

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