The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.

Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble.

Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.

Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information.

Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.

A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation.

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful.

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.