Dee Hock
Dee Hock
Dee Ward Hockis the founder and former CEO of the Visa credit card association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
thinking ifs
If you think you can't, why think
tools fool worship
Only fools worship their tools
business voice life-is
The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."
growth
Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.
organization important purpose
An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.
struggle years age
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.
position-of-power people understanding
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.
engineering may evolution
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
memories mean collective-memory
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.
change government order
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.
success too-late pessimism
It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.