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Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

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Dee Hock
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: March 21
Businessperson
Dee Ward Hock
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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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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.
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Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
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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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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
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Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
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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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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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Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
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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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Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.
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