Dee Hock Quotes
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
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 for the good of the place.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
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 you evoke it?
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.
As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.
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.
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 to transmit information.
Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.
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 nothing to do with that.
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 through others within months.
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 cannot measure no matter how hard we try.
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
