Top 200 Pearl Zhu Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.”

— Pearl Zhu

52. “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

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

57. “The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

71. “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

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

— Pearl Zhu

73. “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

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

85. “Independent directors practice independent thinking.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

87. “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

88. “A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Pearl Zhu