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

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  Past, Substance, Form

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• Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

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  Mind, Characteristics, Infirmity

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• The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

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  Understanding, Want, Prudent

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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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  People, Quality, Use

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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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  Struggle, Data, Understanding

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.224, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Done, Lists, Careful

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• It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

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  Success, Too Late, Pessimism

  Dee Hock (2013). “Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition”, p.210, iUniverse

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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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  Self, People, Titles

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.86, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them; of their character, judgements, acts and efforts.

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  Character, Organization, Ideas

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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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  Dream, Determination, People

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.214, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Motivation, Integrity, Understanding

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• Only fools worship their tools

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  Tools, Fool, Worship

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.54, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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  Country, Culture, Months

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• Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

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  Substance, Ephemeral, Form

  "Dee Hock on Management" by M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"

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  Religious, Business, Simple

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• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

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  Heart, Practice, People

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

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  Struggle, Years, Age

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• We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.

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  Change, Government, Order

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• 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.

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  Organization, Important, Purpose

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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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  Law, Income, Substance

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• Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

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  Secret, Yardsticks, Surrender

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

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  Memories, Mean, Years

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• Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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  Mind, Rooms, Furniture

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• With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

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  Engineering, May, Evolution

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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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  Position Of Power, People, Understanding

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