Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power,… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a… — Dee Hock Copy Share
You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can… — Dee Hock Copy Share
To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any… — Dee Hock Copy Share
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior… — Dee Hock Copy Share
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock Copy Share
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. — Dee Hock Copy Share
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for… — Dee Hock Copy Share
It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles… — Dee Hock Copy Share
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch… — Dee Hock Copy Share
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in… — Dee Hock Copy Share
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others,… — Dee Hock Copy Share
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. — Dee Hock Copy Share
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of… — Dee Hock Copy Share
