Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence

by Pearl Zhu

We are moving to the deep, deep digital dynamic, hopefully, we are also moving from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era with the abundance of wisdom slowly and steadily. The purpose of Digital Valley - Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence is to guide digital leaders and professionals to understand the multidimensional digital wisdom in making fair judgments and sound decisions on the daily basis, also, inspire them to make a profound positive influence on both professional career and personal life. If knowledge is concrete, intelligence is contextual, and then wisdom is abstract and wider, with the following

Chapter 1 Creative Creativity is a higher level of thinking which could leads to wisdom because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think 'harder' and consciously use different kinds of thought processes and thinking tools like association, perspective shifting, opposites etc., when you are wanting to come up with a creative solution to a challenge. A certain mental, psychological and conditional chemistry is needed to break-away from thoughts that others have thought about. So creativity appears to be beyond the conventional thinking - where you have left the confines of other people's thoughts. Creativity is context - dependent, so it could mean a type of contextual intelligence.

Chapter 2 Strategic Strategic Thinking is the ability to think on a temporal plane. Strategic Thinking is about where you are, where you want to be, identify the gap and create the alternate approaches to anticipate and provide solutions. Strategic Thinking is more about making decisions directly towards achieving defined outcomes as a purposive activity, so it is the “keep the end in mind” thought process. It is the wisdom because the strategy is often the guide and roadmap to navigate us toward the right direction.

Chapter 3 System Systems Thinking is a way of understanding complexity. Systems Thinking by definition is a cognitive thinking process, a profound thinking process to embrace holism and nonlinearity. Systems Thinking is a type of synthetic thinking with a complex mix of several components, typically it Dynamic Thinking (positioning your issue as part of a pattern of behavior that has developed over time); Scientific Thinking (using models to test hypotheses and discard falsehoods, not just to ascertain ‘the truth’); Cause-effective Thinking (constructing a model to explain how the problem behavior arises); ‘Forest’ Thinking (seeing the ‘big picture’ and taking a more holistic view of that system); Analytical Thinking (analyzing how things actually work, the cause and effect relationships), and Quantitative’ (quantifying not just the hard data but also the soft variables that are operating in the system).

Chapter 4 Decision The majority of leaders and professional spend a significant amount of time on making large or small decisions in the work and life. It takes wisdom (and often collective wisdom) to make effective decisions. There is fuzziness in the decision because there is fuzziness in conflicting criteria. At the digital era, making data-based decisions means to leverage analytical thinking , advanced analytic tools, the human’s intuition, and add the “wisdom” in the decision process to improve the overall effectiveness of decision making.

Chapter 5 Culture The definition of culture is “the mindsets, attitudes, feelings, values and behaviors that characterize and inform a group and its members.” From business perspective, culture is the way how we think and do things around here, it is the collective mindset; with the trend of digitalization and globalization, culture wisdom is the type of intelligence for tolerance of ambiguity, a set of capabilities for cultural cognition, learning agility, handling complexity, communicating virtually, and working across cultures with flexibility. Therefore, culture intellig

257 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 11, 2016

About the author

Pearl Zhu has more than 25 years of technical and business working experience in Information Technology, E-commerce, international trading, etc. My blog has reached #10000 blog posting with 100,000,000 views wordwidely.

She is a digital visionary who can capture technological foresight, business insight, and digital leadership philosophy from multidimensional lenses and global perspectives. She also is a forward-looking digital leader who advocates business innovation and culture evolution relentlessly.

She is the author of "Digital Master" book series (28+ books), which include: "Digital Master –Debunk the Myth of Enterprise Digital Maturity," "CIO Master – Unleash the Digital Potential of IT," "Digital Valley - Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence," "Digital Agility - The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile," "Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity," "Talent Master -199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles," "Digitizing Boardroom - The Multidimensional Aspects of Digital Ready Boards," "Thinkingaire - 100 Game-Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future," "Change Insight -Change as Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation," "IT Innovation -Running IT for the Digital Age," "Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation in a Structural Way," "100 Creativity Ingredients -Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity," "Decision Master -The Art and Science of Decision-Making," "Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business," "Digital IT - 100 Q&As," "Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability Into Business Competency," and "Performance Master - Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance," and "Digital Boardroom- 100 Q&As," "Digital FIt: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit," "100 Digital Rules," and "12 Digital Personas," "Problem-Solving Master: Frame Problems Systematically, Solve Problems Creatively," "Digital Maturity: Taking a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioining to Delight," "Digital Pitfalls: How to Overcome Pitfalls on the way to Going Digital," "Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the RIght Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift," and received very positive feedback.