Quotes About Cohesion

You don't form teams; you build them.

This is a critical point, because too often in a team setting we have people who are in the boat but not on the team.

Confused communication and unity of purpose cannot live together.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Social cohesion is more efficient than coercion.

When one falls we all fall.

Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.

group identity essentially means rules, and therefore security. Every group is concerned with regulating jouissance

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and Davidís sons were priestly leaders.

The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand.

If a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand.