Dee Hock Quotes

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• What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member…
• With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
• We are at the very point in time when a 400-year old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting…
• If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
• Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to…
• Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
• It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it…
• Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
• Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
• Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world…
• An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional…
• We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form --…

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