Dee Hock Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.”

“If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.”

“Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.”

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

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

“Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.”

“It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.”

“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.”

“Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.”

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