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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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"With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse."
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"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."
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"Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia."
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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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"Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference."
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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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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."
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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 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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"Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information."
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