"As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization's expectation from IT through innovation lenses."

"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."

"A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination."

"Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts."

"Lack of independent thinking is lacking in confidence."

"The essence of "Being Hybrid is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly."

"Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator."

"The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms."

"Leadership vision is built on the leader's authenticity."

"Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin."

"Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity."

"Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly."

"Metaphorically, governance is like a "Steer, Risk Management is like a "Brake."

"Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose."

"Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are."

"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."

"Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest."

"Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership."

"Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture."

"Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment."

"The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation."

"Mindset is the "software, and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level."

"You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming."

"Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable."

"Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps."

"Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management."

"The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three "Is - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement."

"Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner."

"Digital is the age of empathy."

"The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature."

"Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level."

"Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it."

"Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions."

"You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead."

"The collective sensation is one's perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception."

"Creativity is utilizing both sides of the brain simultaneously - creative + activity."

"The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity."

"High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension."

"Culture should be a business 'app,' everyone can apply it daily."

"Culture is like water in the sea, it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it."

"The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done."

"Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity."

"Innovation is a mindset, and that's where governance comes in."

"The exercise of blending people's problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do."

"The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward."

"One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it."

"The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum."

"Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity."

"Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom."

"Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can't build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust."