Quotes About Team

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.

Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization.

We assume that there is one person in each body, but in some ways we are each more like a committee whose members have been thrown together to do a job, but who often find themselves working at cross purposes.

oxytocin made men more willing to hurt other teams (in a prisoner's dilemma game) because doing so was the best way to protect their own group.

You can't have much of a mission without good allies and a good enemy.

Reasoning can take us to almost any conclusion we want to reach, because we ask "Can I believe it?" when we want to believe something, but "Must I believe it?" when we don't want to believe. The answer is almost always yes to the first question and no to the second. In moral and political matters we are often groupish, rather than selfish. We deploy our reasoning skills to support our team, and to demonstrate commitment to our team.

Once people join a political team, they get ensnared in its moral matrix. They see confirmation of their grand narrative everywhere, and it's difficult-perhaps impossible-to convince them that they are wrong if you argue with them from outside of their matrix.

Holy Christ . . . are we talking zombies here?" Church smiled faintly. "We're calling him a 'walker.' Short for 'Dead Man Walking.' The head of my science team has too much of a pop culture sensibility.

Like the rest of the team, neither of us had wanted to do anything much, other than eat and sleep and enjoy the pure mechanics of being alive. But now he was here.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

The world that this game [football] is about: skill, heart, honor, joy, and team spirit.

I am here to remind the world that this game is about skills, heart, honor, joy, team spirit.

Persistent use of the UBIQUITOUS LANGUAGE will force the model's weaknesses into the open. The team will experiment and find alternatives to awkward terms or combinations. As gaps are found in the language, new words will enter the discussion. These changes to the language will be recognized as changes in the domain model and will lead the team to update class diagrams and rename classes and methods in the code, or even change behavior, when the meaning of a term changes.

The indirectness of communication conceals the formation of schisms—different team members use terms differently but don't realize it.

Cycle after cycle, the team is working hard, but the business is not seeing results. Managers trained in a traditional model draw the logical conclusion: our team is not working hard, not working effectively, or not working efficiently.

A visão é a parte inegociável da missão da equipe – é aquilo que faz você preferir fechar as portas a ter que ceder.

If a competitor can outexecute a startup once the idea is known, the startup is doomed anyway. The reason to build a new team to pursue an idea is that you believe you can accelerate through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop faster than anyone else can.

In most cases, the answer was no; success was driven by decisions the team had made in the past. None of its current initiatives were having any impact. But this was obscured because the company's gross metrics were all "up and to the right.

In a great market—a market with lots of real potential customers—the market pulls product out of the startup. This is the story of search keyword advertising, Internet auctions, and TCP/IP routers. Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn't matter—you're going to fail.3

Most important, a disciplined team can experiment with its own working style and draw meaningful conclusions.

Once a team is set up, what should it do? What process should it use? How should it be held accountable to performance milestones?

Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup's present and future business prospects.