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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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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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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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Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.
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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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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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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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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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Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
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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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Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you think you can't, why think
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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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