“Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.” FirstsLastsMotivationUnderstandingIntegrityCapacityThirdsBasesFourthFifth Author:Dee Hock
“Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.” PeopleFirstsUseMotivationalLastsMotivationEasyUnderstandingQualityKnowledgeAdviceDangerousIntegrityLimitsCapacityExperienceThirdsBasesBlindMotiveMeaninglessFourthProvidingCeoFifthPromotionHiringGood AdviceImpotenceGreat LeadershipKnowledge ExperienceUnderstanding Knowledge Author: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.” IfsFirstsFormInformationCapacityStoresCellsPossessedTransmitSingle Life Author:Dee Hock
“Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.” LanguageDealsInformationHugeCapacityExpansion Author:Dee Hock