Quotes Dee Hock

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this...

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as goo...

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the specie...

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantl...

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture....

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by...

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 's...

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it cle...

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managi...

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such t...

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose per...

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal l...

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with ...

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and fre...

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhor...

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativi...

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do ...

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in peo...

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference....

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral....

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of t...

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that for...

The old idea of thinking of leaders as superior people at th...

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts int...

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, tes...