94 Quotes by Dee Hock

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.

If we examine with clear eyes what we have done to the majority of people on earth, to the earth itself, and to all other forms of life thereon, we can only hope that there are no gods, or if there are, that they are not just.

Only fools worship their tools.

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

If you think you can’t, why think.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to others, ever.

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.

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.

Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.