Top 200 Pearl Zhu Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.”

— Pearl Zhu

52. “To empower is to give the team a means to shine.”

— Pearl Zhu

53. “First, measure the right things, and then measure them right.”

— Pearl Zhu

54. “Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.”

— Pearl Zhu

55. “The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”

— Pearl Zhu

56. “Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.”

— Pearl Zhu

57. “The Boardroom Paradox: Harden the softest like culture, and soften the hardest like number.”

— Pearl Zhu

58. “Mechanistic thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.”

— Pearl Zhu

59. “Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.”

— Pearl Zhu

60. “Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.”

— Pearl Zhu

61. “We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.”

— Pearl Zhu

62. “GRC is about collaboration and harmony.”

— Pearl Zhu

63. “All generations need to realize they can learn from each other, to run a successful business and an advanced society.”

— Pearl Zhu

64. “Going digital is more like a journey than a destination. Predicting and preparing the next level of digitalization is an iterative learning and doing continuum.”

— Pearl Zhu

65. “Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow.”

— Pearl Zhu

66. “Strategic Thinking helps to bridge between where you are and where you want to be.”

— Pearl Zhu

67. “Innovation has to become the philosophy, and part of DNA in an organization.”

— Pearl Zhu

68. “Sense and deal with problems in their smallest state, before they grow bigger and become fatal.”

— Pearl Zhu

69. “The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us versus them.”

— Pearl Zhu

70. “Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable.”

— Pearl Zhu

71. “An adaptive mind has better learning capability.”

— Pearl Zhu

72. “The Board’s role is to pull management out of the trees to see the forest.”

— Pearl Zhu

73. “Critical Thinking has the potential to be a deeply creative process.”

— Pearl Zhu

74. “Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.”

— Pearl Zhu

75. “A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.”

— Pearl Zhu

76. “Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.”

— Pearl Zhu

77. “The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.”

— Pearl Zhu

78. “Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.”

— Pearl Zhu

79. “The Board must set a tone for digital leadership.”

— Pearl Zhu

80. “Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

82. “The better way to define quality experience is “Lessons Learned.”

— Pearl Zhu

83. “Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.”

— Pearl Zhu

84. “Independent directors practice independent thinking.”

— Pearl Zhu

85. “Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions.”

— Pearl Zhu

86. “To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.”

— Pearl Zhu

87. “The high-quality communication is to bridge differences and encourage problem-solving.”

— Pearl Zhu

88. “The company’s leadership plays a major role in framing the right questions for decision-making.”

— Pearl Zhu

89. “Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.”

— Pearl Zhu

90. “Creative people are both problem finders and problem solvers.”

— Pearl Zhu

91. “Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.”

— Pearl Zhu

92. “Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture.”

— Pearl Zhu

93. “The change shall not always be stressful and reactive; make it as fun and proactive as possible.”

— Pearl Zhu

94. “Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.”

— Pearl Zhu

95. “An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.”

— Pearl Zhu

96. “A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.”

— Pearl Zhu

97. “Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.”

— Pearl Zhu

98. “Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.”

— Pearl Zhu

99. “Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.”

— Pearl Zhu

100. “Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” – It means to change or alter things that already exist.”

— Pearl Zhu