Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 emerge in… — 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 for others,… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
