Dee Hock Quotes

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock

Mind, Creativity, Clean

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, Work, Nothing

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 requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

Trust, Wisdom, Humility

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
Dee Hock

Work, Good, Live

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
Dee Hock

Time, Yourself, Character

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock

Mind, Creativity, Space

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
Dee Hock

Success, Future, Past

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 cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Dee Hock

Power, Ego, Small

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
Dee Hock

Yourself, Same, Free

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 heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

Money, Best, Mind

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 of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
Dee Hock

Important, Deep, Become

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 beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
Dee Hock

Brain, Understand, Why

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.
Dee Hock

Away, Matter, Means

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
Dee Hock

Mind, Room, Furniture

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Dee Hock

Good, Experience, Put

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.
Dee Hock

Life, Capacity, Clearly

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 who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
Dee Hock

Best, Person, Leader

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
Dee Hock

Language, Deal, Capacity

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
Dee Hock

Done, Others, Careful

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
Dee Hock

Done, Others, Another

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
Dee Hock

Difference, Substance, Modify

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
Dee Hock

Substance, Enduring, Ephemeral

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.
Dee Hock

Nature, Business, Law

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock

Mind, Thoughts, Problem

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 thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock

Future, Learning, Achieve

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Type: Businessman

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