It Leadership Quotes

“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

“The CIO needs to be an enterprise ‘polyglot,’ to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“Continual Improvement” is the IT mantra in the digital era.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“The digital CIO needs to be the proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“IT leadership needs to shift from “surviving to striving to thriving” mode; IT also needs to shift from “controlling to change to innovate.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“The CIO as “Chief Interpretation Officer” is the new digital leadership perspective of harnessing communication and people-centricity for accelerating digital transformation.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“CIOs need to communicate effectively via tailoring different audiences.”
― Pearl Zhu, 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Digital CIOs have both vision and passion, capability and capacity for entering into the new world of change and innovation.”
― Pearl Zhu, The Change Agent CIO

“The CIO is a leadership role, in its best form; leadership is about creating a powerful future that is compelling in the present.”
― Pearl Zhu, The Change Agent CIO

“IT leaders need to be fully aware of the promises and perils of performance management, play the number game wisely.”
― Pearl Zhu, The Change Agent CIO

“IT performance needs to well reflect the multidimensional business value in which IT can contribute both strategically and operationally, to capture both short-term gain and long-term win.”
― Pearl Zhu, The Change Agent CIO

“CIOs have to advocate for “departmental immersion” and other strategies to help IT become seamlessly integrated and be aware of the organization as a whole to achieve high-performance results.”
― Pearl Zhu, 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready