If you think you can't, why think Dee Hock More Quotes by Dee Hock More Quotes From Dee Hock Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. Dee Hock peers risk people Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping Dee Hock judgment data facts Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things Dee Hock determination dream people 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 nature struggle years 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 data understanding struggle 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 practice heart people 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 business simple religious 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 organization purpose Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. Dee Hock furniture mind rooms Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Dee Hock motivation understanding integrity 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 government change order Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. Dee Hock infirmity characteristics mind 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-life information cells Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Dee Hock form substance past It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism. Dee Hock pessimism success too-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 ephemeral form substance Only fools worship their tools Dee Hock fool tools worship Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. Dee Hock quality use people 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 struggle age years 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. Dee Hock titles self people
