Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours.… — 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
