Dee Hock

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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.

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

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

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.

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.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

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