Dee Hock Quotes - Page 2

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• The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

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  Inspiration, World, Spirit

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• Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

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  Lying, Belief, Evoke

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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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  Cells, Single Life, Information

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

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  Mind, Characteristics, Infirmity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

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  Nature, Struggle, Years

  "The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock". Interview with M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Organization, Leader, Hierarchy

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

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  Expansion, Information, Language

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• Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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  Mind, Rooms, Furniture

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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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