Dee Hock
Dee Hock
Dee Ward Hockis the founder and former CEO of the Visa credit card association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.
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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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If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
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Today, everything is accelerating change, with one incredibly important exception. There has been no loss of institutional float.
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With the capacity to communicate, immediately came the evolution of complex communities of organisms: hives, flocks, tribes, herds, whatever.
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An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
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Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
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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.
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Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
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It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
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It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
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Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
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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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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.