The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.

Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.

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

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.

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

Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.

It’s probably better and more accessible to measure change readiness rather than change progress.

Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.

The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.

To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.

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

Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.

Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible.

If you make change part of your operation routine and your DNA, and then change becomes easier to deal with, and even become an ongoing core business capability.

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

Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

The future or organizations have amazing digital traits such as customer-centricity, empathy, and participation.

The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.

For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.

The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce.

Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.

Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.

You don’t need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.

It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.

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

It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.

The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.

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

Asking big “WHY” question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.

Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.

Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.

Change Management = The human side of change.

Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.

With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.

Change is a digital continuum.

Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.

The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.

Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.

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

Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.

The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.

Change Agents have a “learning wheel” in their mind.

Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.

Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.

Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.

A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.

All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers.

Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.

From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.

The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.

Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what’s being said, but more importantly, what's not being said.

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

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

Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.

A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Vision is a future state of beings.

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.

Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.

Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.

Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.

Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.

The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.

Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.

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

Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.

Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.

Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.

Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.

Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.

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

Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.

A positive mind reflects many of the Sun’s characteristics: brightness, nourishment, and vibrance.

Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.

Not every leader is a philosopher, but each leader should cultivate a philosophical mindset.

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

The brain is to mind as the eye is to sight.

A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice “de-learning” and “relearning” all the time.

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

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

Insight is vision through the ‘mind’s eyes.

Only a positive mind can move the world forward.

A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths.

An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.

Being optimistic is the view looking for the best, it comes with the “never give up” attitude.

Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.

Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions.

One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it.

Creativity flourishes in solitude.

Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.

The collective sensation is one’s perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.

Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.

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

The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.

Context is a chain of associations which stimulate creativity.

Creativity isn’t necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a “connect-the-dots” adventure.

Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.

Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.

Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.

The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.

Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.

Prioritization provides a framework for focusing on creativity.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity.

To motivate” is the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do things.

Creativity is fluid, like the fountainhead from within you, flowing out.

Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.

Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.

To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction

Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

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

Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.

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

Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.

Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.

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

Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.

Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity.

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Being confident means you know who you are, your strength and your limitation.

A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.

Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.

Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities.

A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.

Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.

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

Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.

Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.

Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.

The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.

Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.

Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.

Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.

You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.

Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.

Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.

The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.

Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.

You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the 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 mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.

The “Boxes” are the walls in your mind.

The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.

Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is.

A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.

Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision

To be creative you must set aside both certainty and doubt.

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

An innovative mind allows “the creative flow” to open up for information abundance.

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.

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

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

Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.

Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.

Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.

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

It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.

Creative leadership can be described as “adaptability meets agility,” and “innovation meets principles.

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

Decisions always refer to the future.

Future is the most difficult problem of our era.

An adaptive mind has better learning capability.

When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.

The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.

Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can’t build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust.

When there is fear, there is no trust.

A child-like mind is full of imagination.

Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

Culture is the organization’s fingerprint.

Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.

Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence.

Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information.

Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.

Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.

Culture should be a business ‘app,’ everyone can apply it daily.

Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.

Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.

Culture is corporate character.

You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.

Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.

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

Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.

The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.

Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.

Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.

Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.

Anti-digital mindsets are those “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.

It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.

Setting the right priorities or having superior time management skill means knowing the difference between “must have,” and “nice to have.

Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.

The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.

Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.

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

Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations.

Judgment and decision making are often considered together.

Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.

A peaceful mind is not a matter of doing, but of being.

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

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.

A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can’t stay still.

Open the mind to be on a path to a better version of yourself.

Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow.

Inspiration is the result of moments of insight and a key component of internal “drive.

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

Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.

Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.

Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.

The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.

Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.

High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.

At its core, Agile is a mindset.

Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.

The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.

Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.

The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.

The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.

Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.

Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin.

Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

Digital is the age of empathy.

Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.

The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.

In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.

Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.

Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.

Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.

Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.

Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.

In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.

Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.

For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.

T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.

IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.

A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.

The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.

Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.

The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.

Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.

A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.

The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.

The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.

Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,

An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.

Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and motivation.

Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.

The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.

The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.

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

Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.

To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.

A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.

Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.

Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.

As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.

A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation.

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.

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

The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.

Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.

Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.

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

The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.

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

Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.

The problem of “Command-Control is that you can control people’s behavior, but not their mind.

Analysis and synthesis are different mental muscles to serve different purposes.

Ecosystem thinking is systematic thinking about ecosystem and environment.

Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset.

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

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

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.

A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.

Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.

There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.

Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.

Unprofessionalism damages the business reputation and tarnishes the trust of society.

Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.

It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.

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

Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.

A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level.

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

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

Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.

Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.

The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.

Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.

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

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

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

The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.

Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.

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

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.

Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.

A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.

A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.

If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.

Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.

Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.

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

Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.

Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.

Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.

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

Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.

Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.

We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.

The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.

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

The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.

The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.

The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

All our finite decisions are taken in a very transient emotional stage.

Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.

It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.

Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.

No decision in the world outlives the time, place, and person’s constituents on the basis of which it was made.

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

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

Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.

Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.