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 Always 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
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
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. — Dee Hock Advent 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
It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism. — Dee Hock Inspirational 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
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'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
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use… — Dee Hock About 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 About 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
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 Capacity 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. — Dee Hock Capacity 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
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity. — Dee Hock Human spirit 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
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
