12 CIO Personas Quotes

“Having healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - increased perspective, less prejudgment, and looking at things from different angles.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Digital synchronization and strategic alignment occur when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony to achieve a higher purpose.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Amplifying digital leadership is not about how loudly you can speak, but how profoundly you can think.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Prepare, listen, question, and participate. IT plays a critical role in taking the organization to the next level of digital maturity.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to adapt to “continuous changes.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Software quality begins with the quality of the requirements.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Digital leaders who have multi-layer, multi-level quotients and skills can amplify their leadership influence.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Today’s CIOs have multiple rules to play and take broader leadership responsibilities in transforming their organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Leadership is not a setting-hour work, but a continuous self-awareness, self-motivation, and self-mastery journey.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“High mature CIOs are high influencers through their breadth of business knowledge and the depth of IT insight.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“CIOs are in the unique position to oversee the business from different angles, they can have the multitude of business views to lead changes and enforce leadership influence.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“A digital CIO has to be a digital visionary, a transformational leader; an empathetic communicator; a good facilitator, a great listener, and an excellent digital game changer.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Digital management is responsible for designing, enabling, and enforcing a collaborative, innovative, intelligent, inspiring and inclusive working environment.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“A high mature digital ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and the catalyzer of digital innovation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“The digital IT should follow the well-defined set of principles: Order over control; innovation over status quo; people over process; and the business as a whole over the functional silo.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Today’s digital organization is more like an organic living thing thriving at the expanded business ecosystem.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“IT is the superglue to integrate the business as a whole and the linchpin for connecting the wider dots to stimulate innovation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Running IT as a business begins with understanding the true business needs, strengthens the weak links in the organization, and improves the business top-line business growth.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Measure the CIO’s success on value creation, and you’ll get the kind of performance you need out of IT.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Outside-in IT performance perspectives and outcome-based measurement practices are important to improve IT maturity and focus on the performance of the entire organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Take multi-phased approaches to building a more transparent IT for achieving people-centricity.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Hard business assets keep the organization lights on, and soft assets of the organization enable the business to unlock its potential.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Performance metrics are number in context, results related to the strategic goals of the business.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Assessing organizational personality, managing company performance and maximizing business potential are all important digital management scenarios to build the high-mature digital organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“IT leaders have to practice transformational leadership, situational leadership, and innovative leadership all the way in order to lead digital transformation seamlessly.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Running IT as a business is about focusing on innovation, growth, and tangible performance result.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Practicing entrepreneurship in IT starts with the outlier leadership and builds an innovative culture - the collective attitude to experiment better ways to do things.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Innovation is an important business capability to catalyze the business’s long-term prosperity.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices