Dee Hock Quotes

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• Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.
• Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
• Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time…
• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building…
• Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
• The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.
• People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings,…
• 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, and…
• Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we…
• Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep…
• We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form -…
• Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do…
• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation…
• Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
• If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at…
• Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the…
• An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
• As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be…
• Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
• Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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