Quotes About Cohesion

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

It was the everyday people who were our country's true lifeblood. If they should fail, so would we all.

A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni.

In high-performing organizations, everyone within the team shares a common goal—quality, availability, and security aren't the responsibility of individual departments but are a part of everyone's job, every day.

Repetition, especially for things that require teamwork, creates trust and transparency.

Tuckman phases of teams, going through form, storm, norm, and perform. She's ready to start norming and performing!

Multiculturalism attacks individualism by defining people as mere manifestations of groups (racial, ethnic, sexual) rather than as self-defining participants in a free society. And one way to make racial, ethnic, or sexual identity primary is to destroy alternative sources of individuality and social cohesion, such as a shared history, a common culture, and unifying values and virtues.

In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.

That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form.

For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.

A building is a string of events belonging together.

Birds of a feather will flock together.

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.

I want to develop an atmosphere where the selectors, captain, and coach are on the same page because, unless this happens, there will be no turnaround in our cricket.

[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.