“We need to migrate from knowledge as an owned asset to knowledge as an interdependent and collaborative flow.” – Miles Everson
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” – Harold S. Geneen
“It (an ideal organization) must be equitably owned by all participants. No member should have intrinsic preferential position. All advantage must result from individual ability and initiative.” – Dee W. Hock
“To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.” – Warren Buffett
“Power and function must be distributive to the maximum degree. No function should be performed by any part of the whole that could reasonably be done by any more peripheral part, and no power vested in any part that might reasonably be exercised by any lesser part.” – Dee W. Hock
“The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to ‘smell’ a ‘real fact’ from all others.” – Harold S. Geneen
“If there were no constraints whatever, if anything imaginable was possible, what would be the nature (not the structure) of an ideal organization to create the world’s Premier device for the exchange of value?” – Dee W. Hock
“Whatever organization could best globally guarantee and exchange data in the form of arranged, electronic signals would have a potential market — very exchange of value in the world — whose size beggared the imagination.” – Dee W. Hock
“Hear the other side.” – Saint Augustine
“If there is any one secrets of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from the person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford
“Money had become nothing more than guaranteed, alphanumeric data recorded on valueless paper and metal. It would become data in the form of organized electrons and photons moving around the world at the speed of light, at minuscule cost, by infinitely diverse paths throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum.” – Dee W. Hock
“The most abundant, least expensive, most underutilized and frequently abused resource in the world was human ingenuity; the source of that abuse was archaic, Industrial Age institutions and the management practices they spawned.” – Dee W. Hock
“A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.” – Harold S. Geneen
“Businesses that benefit from some kind of durable competitive advantage almost never sell for below their book value. We say almost never, but occasionally it does happen, and when it does, it can be the buying opportunity of a lifetime.” – Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage by Mary Buffett, David Clark
“‘Credit card’ was a misnomer, a false concept. It must be reconceived as a device for exchange of value in the form of arranged electronic signals. The demand for that exchange would be huge and global.” – Dee W. Hock
“The so-called Information Age could best be understood as the Age of Mindcrafting, since information is nothing but the raw material of that incredible chaord we call mind and the pseudo mind we call computer. Software, the tool with which we shape and manage that information, is purely a product of the mind.” – Dee W. Hock
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” – Anthony Robbins
“Just as the human body is organized around a neural network, so complex as to defy description, so too were electronic communication systems emerging and interconnecting into an equally complex economic and social network around which institutions and society would be forced to reorganize.” – Dee W. Hock
“There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.” – Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Industrial Age, hierarchical command-and-control pyramids of power, whether political, social, educational, or commercial, were aberrations of the Industrial Age, antithetical to the human spirit, destructive of the biosphere, and structurally contrary to the whole history and methods of physical and biological evolution. They were not only archaic and increasingly irrelevant, they were a public menace.” – Dee W. Hock
