We are moving to the deep, deep digital dynamic, hopefully, we are also moving from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era with the abundance of wisdom slowly and steadily. The purpose of Digital Valley - Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence is to guide digital leaders and professionals to understand the multidimensional digital wisdom in making fair judgments and sound decisions on the daily basis, also, inspire them to make a profound positive influence on both professional career and personal life.

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Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
● Valley is open to embrace
inclusiveness.
● Valley is quiet to express profundity.
● Valley is deep to develop insight.
● Valley is hidden to balance
aggressiveness and humility.
● Digital Valley is fluid and nourishing to
flow with the abundance of wisdom.

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A set of insightful quotes about creativity
● The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
● Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order
to look at things in a different way. - Edward de Bono
● Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. -Earl
Nightingale
● A creative one is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the
desire to beat others -Ayn Rand
● Creativity is just connecting things. - Steve Jobs

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Creativity is a Beautiful Phenomenon!
● Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the
originator.
● All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are
created equal.
● Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.
● Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion, and comes from a vision of
uniqueness.

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What matters now is creativity!
● Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth & myth and manifold
knowledge.
● Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be
cultivated.
● Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to
enchantment.
● Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.

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Strategic Thinkers are Rare Ones!
● "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you
must be without one, be without the strategy." -Norman Schwarzkopf
● A strategy is multi-dimensional planning, multi-team collaboration and
multitasking action.
● A Strategic thinker always “keeps the end in mind.”

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The strategy is about being different and is about making
choices.
● The real challenge for digital strategy planning is not
in simplifying by ignoring the complications, but to
simplify by including the compilations.
● Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one
and the same thing.
● The strategy is not an effective strategy if it is limited
to rigid prescriptive strategy formulation.
● The strategy is not a strategy when isolated from
business eco-system.
● The strategy is not a strategy if it lacks creativity.

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Systems Thinking is a way of understanding complexity.
● The voice of Systems Thinking, to communicate
within the spiral of conscious awareness, is a story.
● Wisdom is often abstract, and Systems Thinking is
the ability to think conceptually on the higher level.
● In System Thinking, the true wisdom often comes
from a willingness to let go of past learning.
● In a broader sense, Systems Thinking is a path to
greater awareness.
● Systems Thinking provides the more holistic way to
view the problems.
● Systems Thinkers shape a worldview based on the
realization of interconnectedness.

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Judgment and decision making are
often considered together
● The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the
turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. -Peter
Drucker
● Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the
thinkable is not worth the effort. -Helene Cixous
● The biggest challenge the world is facing is not climate
change but poor thinking! - Edward De Bono
● Life is the sum of all your choices. -Albert Camus
● Chance favors only the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur

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Decision making is both art and science
A decisive mindset is information-empowered, analytics-oriented,
striking the right balance between confidence and humility, logic
and creativity.
Decision making is the arena across the art and science; gut
feeling and data driven, confidence and humility.
Decision are based on information and generate information.
It takes wisdom, not just the intelligence to make better decisions.
Decision making is the discipline across the art and science; gut
feeling and data driven; confidence and humility.

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Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.
● Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”
the solid state of “water.”
● Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”
the solid state of “water.”
● Culture is the Corporate DNA.
● Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
● Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.
● Culture should be a business ‘app,’ everyone can apply it
daily.

17. Knowledge is
The ‘power,’
wisdom is
exceptionally
effectively use of
the power!
CONCLUSION

18. Author: Pearl Zhu