Years ago, I launched a “3×100” program, which aims to spread digital philosophy and implement digital transformation for various industries by interviewing 100 leaders, studying 100 books, and training 100 companies.
To be honest, “3×100” is not going well. There are of course many and complex reasons, but the basic one is the same: business leaders do not understand digitalization.
To put it more bluntly, the fundamental resistance to digital transformation of enterprises, and major reason for the failure at digital, is not employees, let alone technology, but leaders. Even for those “trendsetter” companies that are keen on digital technology and keep up with the digital trends, digitalization often stays at boasting fashionable new technologies, wasting a lot of money to buy various digital “new gadgets”, but not committed to change the nature of business operations — because they lack effective digital leadership.
This is how the book Digital Leadership: Transforming Your Business into a Survivor in the Digital Tsunami was born.
In the book description at Amazon, I wrote:
Digital Leadership helps business leaders to the journey of digital transformation. Read this book and take actions accordingly, you can certainly transform your business into a survivor in the worrying digital tsunami.
In fact, Digital Leadership covers what it takes to be a digital leader in the following four sections.
Part I Digital Disruption and Drives
The concept of “digital natives” will be introduced firstly, and then digitalization’s definition and 3 eras through 4 cases. Digitalization is a huge tsunami, because of its 3 kinds of great disruption and 3 types of large effects. There are 4 drives which cause digital tsunami, and 3 essences inside of it.
Part II Become a Digital Leader
Believe or not, digital leaders have 5 magics. You cannot become a digital leader, but only evolve into a digital leader, through 5 stages. What looks like a digital leader? You can cultivate 6 personalities. All leaders of your business have to be digitalized, including your board and all CXOs.
Part III Competencies of Digital Leaders
If you want to be a digital leader, you should have 3 mindsets and 3 basic skills. Digital leaders have to embrace 7 competencies to lead their digital transformation. As a digital leader, you must have 2 landing capabilities to implement your leadership.
Part IV Major Challenges for Digital Leaders
As a digital leader, you have 3 critical relationships in digital to deal with. Most digital transformation are of great failure, because of 5 major reasons. For large and complex businesses, you have to face 9 digital challenges during digital journey.
It is not modest to say that I am a little proud of writing and publishing an English book in my spare time in 4 months. Although English is not my native language, I have learned a lot about reading and writing in English since I wrote my diary in English when I was a teenager (Unfortunately, my speaking English is still unsatisfactory).
More importantly, this is a monograph on digital transformation. I can proudly say that Digital Leadership will not lose professionally to any English-language author. I refer to a large number of original English works, including books, websites, articles and videos, on this basis, as saying that “Indigo blue is extract from the indigo plant, but is bluer than the plant it comes from.” The only regret is that some of the data cited in the book are slightly “old” due to research limitations.
So I wrote in “Acknowledgments” of the book:
I appreciate the authors of the books, articles, videos and websites cited in this book. Without their data, information, knowledge and wisdom, I cannot imagine how to complete writing a book like this. Sorry for any misunderstanding or misrepresentation since English is not my native language. And, please feel free to correct my mistakes if there are any wrong or inappropriate citations.
Of course, the main expertise comes from practices. For decades, my clients have been inspiring me to move on in the journey of digital transformation. Their requirements, my passions. I cannot imagine what if I have no encouragement, help and support from my clients of various industries. If I know something or even have some insights, that’s because they give me the opportunities; if I can write something, that’s because of their continuous cooperation and selfless teamwork. I thus become a cross- organizational professional.
So, for being able to publish Digital Leadership, I am very grateful to all of my clients.
I also thank you very much, dear reader. Thank you for purchasing my book, and thank you for Five Stars and reviews at Amazon. I greatly appreciate if you give me direct feedback.
Digital Leadership helps business leaders to the journey of digital transformation. Read this book and take actions accordingly, you can certainly transform your business into a survivor in the worrying digital tsunami.
The concept of “digital natives” will be introduced firstly, and then digitalization’s definition and 3 eras through 4 cases. Digitalization is a huge tsunami, because of its 3 kinds of great disruption and 3 types of large effects. There are 4 drives which cause digital tsunami, and 3 essences inside of it.
Part II Become a Digital Leader
Believe or not, digital leaders have 5 magics. You cannot become a digital leader, but only evolve into a digital leader, through 5 stages. What looks like a digital leader? You can cultivate 6 personalities. All leaders of your business have to be digitalized, including your board and all CXOs.
Part III Competencies of Digital Leaders
If you want to be a digital leader, you should have 3 mindsets and 3 basic skills. Digital leaders have to embrace 7 competencies to lead their digital transformation. As a digital leader, you must have 2 landing capabilities to implement your leadership.
Part IV Major Challenges for Digital Leaders
As a digital leader, you have 3 critical relationships in digital to deal with. Most digital transformation are of great failure, because of 5 major reasons. For large and complex businesses, you have to face 9 digital challenges during digital journey.
I appreciate the authors of the books, articles, videos and websites cited in this book. Without their data, information, knowledge and wisdom, I cannot imagine how to complete writing a book like this. Sorry for any misunderstanding or misrepresentation since English is not my native language. And, please feel free to correct my mistakes if there are any wrong or inappropriate citations.