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 Copy Share Image
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also… — Dee Hock Ability 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 Copy Share Image
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. — Dee Hock Leadership 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
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is… — Dee Hock Collective memory 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
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock 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
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
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
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
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
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use… — Dee Hock 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 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 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 are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is… — Dee Hock Age Copy Share Image
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code… — Dee Hock Clarity Copy Share Image
Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most… — Dee Hock Community Copy Share Image
