Top 200 Pearl Zhu Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.”

— Pearl Zhu

2. “What gets measured gets managed.”

— Pearl Zhu

3. “Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end,” a philosophy and mindset at board level.”

— Pearl Zhu

4. “An organizational structure carries inherent capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame.”

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5. “Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making.”

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6. “The quality of assessors is critical to the quality of the assessment result.”

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7. “Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.”

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8. “Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.”

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9. “WIth silo mentality, organizations lose their collaborative advantage as they are being over managed and under led.”

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10. “Change Management is a journey, not just a one-time project, riding ahead of change curve takes both strategy and methodology.”

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11. “Software quality begins with the quality of the requirements.”

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12. “Performance Management is a holistic management discipline which needs to connect many relevant dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement.”

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13. “Silo builds the wall in people’s minds and creates the barrier in organizations’ “hearts.”

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14. “A business ecosystem is just like the natural ecosystem; first, needs to be understood, then, needs to be well planned, and also needs to be thoughtfully renewed as well.”

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15. “Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.”

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16. “Strategic Thinking is about uncovering all the options and thinking long term.”

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17. “Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.”

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18. “It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.”

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19. “Holistic Thinking is a combination of analysis, Systems Thinking, and Critical Thinking.”

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20. “Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.”

— Pearl Zhu

21. “A “roadmap” is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap provides the direction to the future.”

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22. “Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.”

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23. “You can’t improve what you are not managing, you can’t manage what you are not measuring, and you can’t measure what you are not focusing.”

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24. “Critical Thinking is not automatic thinking. It takes extra effort to think critically.”

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25. “Being inclusive means to appreciate differences and enjoy the diverse viewpoints.”

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26. “People do what you inspect, not what you expect.”

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27. “Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.”

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28. “A positive mind reflects many of the Sun’s characteristics: brightness, nourishment, and vibrance.”

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29. “Learning agility means to learn, de-learn, and relearn all the times.”

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30. “Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.”

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31. “Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous, and interactive state.”

— Pearl Zhu

32. “Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.”

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33. “Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.”

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34. “A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.”

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35. “The better solution to many problems that across all industries is to keep peeling back the layers to find the root cause.”

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36. “Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.”

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37. “Persuasion with good intention helps problem-solving; manipulation often serves the ego.”

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38. “Adaptability is not just a soft skill, but a hard capability.”

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39. “Governance is not about maximization, but about optimization.”

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40. “One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.”

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41. “Innovation happens when you change the game; you bring a different twist to what is currently established and perceived.”

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42. “It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without highly competitive talent.”

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43. “Digital transformation represents a break from the past and presents a high level of impact and complexity.”

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44. “The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.”

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45. “The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.”

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46. “The organization’s long-term success is based on a set of differentiated capabilities and its core competency.”

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47. “Ideally, the two structures – hierarchy, and relationship structure wrap around each other to ensure responsibility, to keep information flow and the creation of power.”

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

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49. “Amplifying digital leadership is not about how loudly you can speak, but how profoundly you can think.”

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50. “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