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
You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided… — Dee Hock Failure 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 Another way 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… — Dee Hock Able 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
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. — Dee Hock Leadership 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism. — Dee Hock Inspirational 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
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
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
Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always. — Dee Hock Always Copy Share Image
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. — Dee Hock Characteristics 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
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 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
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one… — Dee Hock Century Copy Share Image
