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Dee Hock

"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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"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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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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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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"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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"Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference."
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"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."
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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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"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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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."
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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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