Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. — Dee Hock Creativity Copy Share Image
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations. — Dee Hock Heaven Copy Share Image
Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes. — Dee Hock Failure Copy Share Image
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. — Dee Hock Any Copy Share Image
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. — Dee Hock Adept Copy Share Image
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. — Dee Hock Characteristics 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 Good people Copy Share Image
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity. — Dee Hock Human spirit 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
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. — Dee Hock Bases 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
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an… — Dee Hock Affinity 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 Aim 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
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you… — Dee Hock Achieve Copy Share Image
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind… — Dee Hock Building 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 Authority Copy Share Image
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50%… — Dee Hock Authority Copy Share Image
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It… — Dee Hock Ability Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Age Copy Share Image
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest… — Dee Hock Ability Copy Share Image
The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we… — Dee Hock Business Copy Share Image
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the… — Dee Hock Endure 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One… — Dee Hock Affair 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 Change 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 Beings Copy Share Image
It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism. — Dee Hock Inspirational Copy Share Image
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. — Dee Hock Capacity Copy Share Image
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping — Dee Hock Bookkeeping Copy Share Image
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. — Dee Hock Easy Copy Share Image
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. — Dee Hock Business Copy Share Image
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. — Dee Hock Advent Copy Share Image
Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. — Dee Hock All things Copy Share Image
