Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule
Want to be seen as a leader? Get some muscle
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160224164349.htm
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
– Dee Hock
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
– Dee Hock
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
– Dee Hock
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
– Dee Hock
It won’t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
– Dee Hock
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.
– Dee Hock
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
– Dee Hock
Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to others, ever.
– Dee Hock
If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates’, then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
– Dee Hock
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
– Dee Hock
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.
– Dee Hock
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
– Dee Hock
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
– Dee Hock
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
– Dee Hock
Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
– Dee Hock
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
– Dee Hock
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
– Dee Hock
Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
– Dee Hock
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.
– Dee Hock
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
– Dee Hock
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.
– Dee Hock
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
– Dee Hock
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
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?
– Dee Hock
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
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.
– Dee Hock
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.
– Dee Hock
“There is yet another important psychological process working to help Trump: people with money and other trappings of success receive more favorable evaluations from others, regardless of how the success was achieved. This is because success creates positive attributions about the successful individual.”
“It is incongruent to believe that Trump is, on the one hand, rich and successful, and on the other hand, unintelligent, incompetent, ineffective, and not a good leader. ”
“To maintain cognitive consistency, people are motivated to infer intelligence and many other positive traits from the mere fact of success.”
“…In part, that’s because people carry around in their heads lay theories of the causes of good performance and use those theories to ascribe characteristics to high performing groups—or individuals.”
“But notice the conversations and events around you. Every day, you can see people’s statements being accorded undue status and weight because they are wealthy and successful, even in domains irrelevant to their presumed expertise.”
“Success causes people to be perceived as competent and smart, almost regardless of what they say or do, because of people’s desire to believe in a just world. To maintain logically consistent perceptions of the world, people attribute intelligence and skill to those who are successful.”
“Trump’s polling success rests at least in part on the perception that “he is a rich businessman” who therefore must be smart and a great leader. And that perception is not going away unless and until people attack his business record, not his incendiary language and ever-changing political positions.”
http://fortune.com/2015/12/10/donald-trump-perception-bias-success-election-polls/
“The bigger the goal, the less competition there is for it. Think: Herd behavior versus solitary hunter.”
https://twitter.com/MarkOOakes/status/683711573991514113
Only 8% of Leaders Are Good at Both Strategy and Execution
https://hbr.org/2015/12/only-8-of-leaders-are-good-at-both-strategy-and-execution
“Politicians, patriots and statesmen
“The politician used to be what we called a bureaucratic operative, someone who carefully chose his words and actions so he would offend no one. (Today, it’s more likely to be someone who intentionally slows things down, who works hard to point fingers at the other side and is constantly on the hunt for money).
“The patriot used to be someone who put aside his own interests in exchange for the organization he represents. (Today, it’s more likely to be someone who’s merely jingoistic, with a bit of short-term thinking thrown in for good measure). Plenty of blustering tech company CEOs could be put into this category.
“And the statesman? The statesman is the person who will speak the truth, take the long-term view and do what’s right, even if it hurts his position in the short-run. Fortunately, this definition hasn’t changed much over the years. This is the leader who doesn’t want to know which side someone is on before he can tell you if the decisions made were good ones or not. He’s the one who works hard to see the world as it is, as opposed to insisting it must only be the way he expects. And mostly, he’s the one you should work with, vote for or follow as often as you can.” — Seth Godin
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/05/politicians-patriots-and-statesmen.html
“The focus on mass acceptance, on the big company or the mass market embracing you, distracts from the difficult work of being embraced by people who lead, not follow.”
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/12/the-paradox-of-popular.html