Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. — Dee Hock Leader Copy Share Image
Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is… — Dee Hock Collective memory Copy Share Image
An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to… — Dee Hock Ability 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
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. — Dee Hock Leadership Copy Share Image
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care… — Dee Hock Care Copy Share Image
“Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. Make another list… — 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 Belief 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 Belief 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
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
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store,… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most… — Dee Hock Community Copy Share Image
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code… — Dee Hock Clarity Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is… — Dee Hock Age 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 Better person Copy Share Image
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and… — Dee Hock Authority 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 Cadre Copy Share Image
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question… — Dee Hock Belief Copy Share Image
