Quotes About Team

Communication is the real work of leadership.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

What's different about you? Why does it make you a pussy if you get help, but not the rest of the team? Oh, I get it. You're the Cobra. You get within striking distance of the enemy, and it's over. But if it all goes sideways and the wrong men die, you don't need help like the rest of us mere mortals.

It's virtually impossible to build a team-based organization without the necessary levels of trust, acceptance, and respect among co-workers that will allow them to be open to interdependent relationships.

Solid team relationships (trust, respect, acceptance, courtesy, and mutual accountability) are the glue that holds the team together.

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.

If a person does not trust another, they will not be vulnerable and transparent and the possibility of misunderstanding and misinterpretation increases. Low trust situations weaken the connection between what we feel and what we say. Other team members pick up on this lack of trust on their intuitive radar screens, raise their defensive shields, and respond in kind. Trust and communication spiral down together.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

I remember every player—every single one—who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

I didn't leave her there for long. When a player makes a mistake, you always want to put them back in quickly—you don't just berate them and sit them down with no chance for redemption.

It wasn't just a job; it was my life, my home, and my family, and the players were the second-deepest love of my life.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

A team that is not focused on results ... • Stagnates/fails to grow • Rarely defeats competitors • Loses achievement-oriented employees

Gradually, Richard's team cultivated Curtis Wright. Early on, when Wright saw Purdue's first draft of the OxyContin package insert, he had remarked that he'd never seen an insert that contained so much promotional and marketing material. Wright told the company that all of this obviously promotional language would have to go. But, in the end, it stayed.

I'm putting the band back together," I said with a smile.

Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.

at that time on the walls at home we had five or six large, very bold paintings of scenes of Stuart working on the dustbins with the regular workmen. I'm sure Tracy Emin could interpret that. He loved that job, the team spirit of the older men. It was a lowly work holiday job but he really enjoyed it.

corridor, supposedly out of earshot, about the meeting they had just taken part in. Then we asked the team playing themselves to do the same. This enactment

Nick, I want you to organize a team of Specials