Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes. Dee Hock More Quotes by Dee Hock More Quotes From Dee Hock 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? Dee Hock evokebelieflying Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. Dee Hock peersriskpeople Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping Dee Hock judgmentdatafacts Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things Dee Hock determinationdreampeople We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed. Dee Hock naturestruggleyears We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information. Dee Hock dataunderstandingstruggle Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. Dee Hock practiceheartpeople Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?" Dee Hock businesssimplereligious 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 importantorganizationpurpose Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. Dee Hock furnituremindrooms Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Dee Hock motivationunderstandingintegrity We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring. Dee Hock governmentchangeorder Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. Dee Hock infirmitycharacteristicsmind 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 single-lifeinformationcells Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Dee Hock formsubstancepast It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism. Dee Hock pessimismsuccesstoo-late Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference. Dee Hock ephemeralformsubstance Only fools worship their tools Dee Hock fooltoolsworship Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. Dee Hock qualityusepeople 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. Dee Hock struggleageyears
