Tag: Systems

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

“…Which brings us back to San Francisco. If memories and functions can flow seamlessly across devices, people, and artefacts, then why can’t we consider an entire city to be a kind of genius? Like the brain, it is using stored information and solving problems. Chief among these is how people can stay alive, and even flourish, under high geographic density. This is a considerable challenge, and one that the city itself solves—in fact, the larger the city, the better it seems to solve its own problems. ”


“…Perhaps increasing the number of technologies, people, and level of communication in a city benefits intelligence in the same way that a larger number of neurons makes possible the great intelligence of human beings.”


“If people are to cities as neurons are to brains, and cities (unlike brains) do not have any known limit to their size, then gigantic cities of the future might produce innovations on a scale that wouldn’t be possible for the cities of today. Faced with pollution, disease, and scarcity, should we be looking to creative environments rather than to individual innovators? Where will we turn to find solutions to the pressing problems of the 21st century? ”


— Jim Davies is an associate professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he is director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/san-francisco-is-smarter-than-you-are

Research is pointing to conscientiousness as the one-trait-to-rule-them-all in terms of future success, both career-wise and personal.

What is it? Basically, it’s being “efficient, organized, neat, and systematic”:

Conscientiousness is the state of being thorough, careful, or vigilant; it implies a desire to do a task well. Conscientiousness is also one trait of the five-factor model of personality, and is manifested in characteristic behaviors such as being efficient, organized, neat, and systematic. It includes such elements as self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness, self-organization, deliberation (the tendency to think carefully before acting), and need for achievement.

http://time.com/3136568/science-points-to-the-single-most-valuable-personality-trait/?

About a decade ago, a lot of the “experts” were telling us that e-mail was “dead”, to be replaced by fun shiny objects like social media and messaging apps.


Why didn’t that happen? In a 2013 interview with Forbes, MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut nails it:


(Email’s) gotten stronger, in my opinion. I remember when my friends and I would email each other messages like, “Hey man, what do you want to do for lunch?” Then we’d go back and forth “I dunno, Chinese?” On and on. Instant Messenger cleaned that out of my inbox. I remember when people used to email me stupid motivational quotes or urban legends. Facebook took that out of my inbox. Friends used to email me pictures of their kids. Instagram cleaned that out of my inbox. At work, project updates would clutter my inbox, but that can get posted to intranets and Yammers, and so on. All those email killers are more like email cleaners. I’m not belittling them. It’s a noble cause. We want our inboxes clean, and we only want to hear from people or topics we truly care about.


Bingo.

http://hughcartoons.com/2016/01/02/why-didnt-email-die-off/

“Systems are nothing more or less than a cohesive set of patterns. Large patterns. Unfortunately, while the brain is excellent at detecting small patterns, large patterns are almost completely invisible to us. And nowhere is this more true than with learning.”


“if you want to learn how you learn, it helps to learn a bunch of different skills at once, because only then will the larger patterns reveal themselves.’

“…if you want to learn how you learn, it helps to learn a bunch of different skills at once, because only then will the larger patterns reveal themselves….”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2015/05/04/tim-ferriss-and-the-secrets-of-accelerated-learning/

“There are no best practices – only very good practices given a certain context” – Udi Dahan


“…the idea that a best practice exists presupposes that it is the best thing you can do in any situation. In reality, what it often means is that the practice has worked in the person’s previous experience.”


“…If you’re under the impression that some practice is best always, you may not spend the time to think about whether or not it’s actually helping you in your current situation.”

http://dandonahue.net/professional/2015/11/07/there-are-no-best-practices.html

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