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Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
Dee Hock
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Dee Hock
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: March 21
Businessperson
Dee Ward Hock
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An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.
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Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.
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Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. 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.
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Only fools worship their tools
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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.
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Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
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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.
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Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
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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.
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If you think you can't, why think
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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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.
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Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.
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Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity second, motivation third, capacity fourth, understanding fifth, knowledge and last and least, experience.
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If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
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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.
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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
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You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.
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