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Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as QUOTES

Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as QUOTES

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

3 " 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. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

9 " 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. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

10 " The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

11 " The digital board’s IT inquiries help to clarify the strategic role of IT in maximizing business potential. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

12 " The board’s oversight of information management can highlight the importance of information flow, set the tone for building the culture of information-based decision-making. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

14 " The high performing board shows the ability and openness to “question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

15 " Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

16 " To put simply, “diversity of thoughts” should be the deciding factor the board to embrace inclusiveness. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

17 " The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us versus them. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

19 " Digital board directors with the right dose of “doubt” are real critical thinkers who can ask deep questions. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

20 " The board of directors should take an outlier’s lens to criticize the business strategy via questioning wisely. "

― Pearl Zhu , Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as