Dee Hock

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place. ↗

— Dee Hock

#leadership #love #organization #leadership

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try. ↗

— Dee Hock

#family #love #family

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. ↗

— Dee Hock

#good #how #live #matter #only

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. ↗

— Dee Hock

#every #furniture #mind #packed #room

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

— Dee Hock

#corner #creativity #empty #empty space #fill

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. ↗

— Dee Hock

#collective #entire #few #going #i

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. ↗

— Dee Hock

#capacity #clearly #first #form #go

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

— Dee Hock

#experience #good #other #people #provide

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

— Dee Hock

#deal #expansion #huge #information #language

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

— Dee Hock

#clothing #follows #forms #future #past