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Pearl Zhu is a digital leader whose career spans over two decades in technology, business, e-commerce, and global industry. She writes books like Digital Agility, Digital Master, and CIO Master, while running the popular 'Future of CIO' blog with millions of views. She brings cross-industrial, cross-cultural experience, applying insight, clarity, and strategic vision to help organizations navigate transformation. Her thought leadership blends foresight and practicality, helping leaders build agility, innovation, and cultural evolution. Her impact lies in elevating digital maturity and giving voice to what it means to lead in change.
"Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc."
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"Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc."

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

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"Judgment and decision making are often considered together."
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"Judgment and decision making are often considered together."

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

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

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

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

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

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"Future is the most difficult problem of our era."
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"Future is the most difficult problem of our era."

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

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

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"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."
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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"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."
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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification."
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"Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification."

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

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"Creative person's spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination."
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"Creative person's spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination."

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

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"The function of the bridge is to mind the gap, the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene."
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"The function of the bridge is to mind the gap, the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene."

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"Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations."
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"Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations."

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

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

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"An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection."
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"An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection."

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"A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths."
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"A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths."

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"Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset."
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"Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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