Quotes About Cooperation

But overall I've always learned to play well in the sandbox with the people I'm working with. I think that's my minor-league training.

One way a collaboration can go wrong is if your connection is inauthentic or overly prescriptive.

I'm a firm believer that individual accolades are a bit overrated in this game.

A single person acting alone is not likely to effect any meaningful change.

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

People who feel untrusted have little inclination to bond together into a cooperative team.

Whether you call it a "team" or an "ensemble" or a "harmonious work group" is not what matters; what matters is helping all parties understand that the success of the individual is tied irrevocably to the success of the whole.

On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.

When you're an ant, a tree ant . . . a soldier tree ant, you just live for those team-building moments when you and your tree ant soldier buddies can donate excess concentrated formic acid into something that really isn't expecting it.

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

Thus, the armies that would slaughter each other in the 1940s in the most massive mechanized battles in history trained together in the 1920s.

Trust is a great force multiplier.

The mufti and the Anglican bishop, together with the city's rabbis, laid a foundation stone "in the name of Jerusalem

We are what make up society.

We all want to be individuals on the road, but smooth-flowing traffic requires conformity. We want all the lights to be green, unless we are on the intersecting road, in which case we want those lights to be green. We want little traffic on our own street but a convenient ten-lane highway blazing just nearby. We all wish the other person would not drive, so that our trip would be faster. What's best for us on the road is often not best for everyone else, and vice versa.

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!!

There's no I in team, but there is in idiot.

1. You can immediately blame the numskull who didn't screw on the cap after he used it and demand that he help you clean up, or . . .

Besides, elvish arms and hands aren't really made for fighting, you know-" "Whose are?" asked Merwen. Kringle looked at her and bowed his head. "None," he said finally. "Maybe soon, everyone will know that.

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly.