Dee Hock Quotes

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• If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and…
• 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 required…
• Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
• Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
• Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
• Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.
• Only fools worship their tools
• If you think you can't, why think
• Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things
• Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you,…
• 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 have…
• The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and…
• You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize…
• Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
• It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
• An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating…
• Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.
• 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 small…
• 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 all…

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