17 Dee Hock Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dee Hock

American Businessman

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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

Best Heart People Money Mind Neither Spirit Morality Touch Principle Motivates Nor Move Influence Cannot Body Belief Reserved

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

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

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

Yourself People Free Else Peers Trivia Lead Same Your

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Dee Hock

Substance Form Enduring Ephemeral

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 in weeks. Dee Hock

Acceptance World Think Took About Weeks Device Around Any Wheel Gain Centuries Use Float Now Technological Universal

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

Language Deal Huge Expansion Information Capacity

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

Memory Matter Collective Few Say Entire Recorded Like Known Years Going Just Information Means Species Away

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

Creativity Mind Will Corner Out Clean Instantly Your Fill

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

Good Experience People Other Easy Put Qualities Provide Quickly Use

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 Behavior Organization Will Leader Hierarchy Kind Able Totally Most Principal Conditions Person Create Require Required Organizations Who Away

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

Organization Will Important Become Conviction Every Way Member Clarity Purpose Absolute Shared Genetic Institutional Principles Sort Understands Conduct Common Deep Deep Conviction Code Set

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

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