Quotes About Collaboration

The Mooseketeers are . . . Ms. Leakey, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Loring, Mr. Macky, Miss Holly, and Mrs. Yonkers. Come

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

According to Russell Simmons, producer Eric B once claimed he could have created fifteen albums with the ideas from Paul's Boutique. Even the late Miles Davis reportedly once said he never tired of the record.

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work.

Countless studies show that these nightmarish hellholes called "open offices" destroy productivity and make people miserable. Yet companies keep inflicting them on us, coyly pretending that the goal is to "foster collaboration," when really it is to squeeze pennies out of overhead by packing more people into fewer square feet of floor space.

Someone like me, with a D personality, is probably going to have trouble working with a C personality, because my personality type tends to be impatient, overbearing, and judgmental, and C personalities tend to be lazy nitwits.

That's partly because Fried and Hansson hate meetings. Fried believes collaboration often turns into "over-collaboration," and that most of it is bullshit anyway. He says brainstorming "is wildly overrated. There are tech companies where you have this weird thing and people are just brainstorming all the time. We brainstorm once a year, and then we spend the rest of the year doing it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." —Leonardo Da Vinci

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

There had actually been a form of a smallpox vaccine since the eighteenth century; what was required was the ability to dream big, to work with others, and to see the destiny of the United States as improving the lives of those beyond our borders. This is the America of which I am exceptionally proud.

What are YOU trying to accomplish? Do you have Whos in your life that give you the perspectives, resources, and ability to go beyond what you could do alone? Or are you keeping your goals so small to make them easier to accomplish them on your own?

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

Seems like in real life, it's not one person saving the other… more like both people making each other better. I mean, that's why God made both genders, right?

The national plan is about all of us moving together. It's also not a national plan for picnics, just quietly

While successful culture can look and feel like magic, the truth is that it's not. Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. It's not something you are. It's something you do.

The goal needs to be to get the team right, get them moving in the right direction, and get them to see where they are making mistakes and where they are succeeding.

Master teachers and coaches don't stand in front; they stand alongside the individuals they're helping. They don't give long speeches; they deliver useful information in small, vivid chunks.

Create Safe, Collision-Rich Spaces:

One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together.

Give a mediocre idea to a good team, and they'll find a way to make it better. The goal needs to be to get the team right, get them moving in the right direction, and get them to see where they are making mistakes and where they are succeeding.

We focus on what we can see—individual skills. But individual skills are not what matters. What matters is the interaction.

Creative skills, on the other hand, are about empowering a group to do the hard work of building something that has never existed before.

The kindergartners succeed not because they are smarter but because they work together in a smarter way. They are tapping into a simple and powerful method in which a group of ordinary people can create a performance far beyond the sum of their parts.

Los braintrust no son divertidos. Son situaciones en las que se dice a los directores que los personajes carecen de alma, que la línea argumental es confusa y que los chistes son malos. Pero también sirven para hacer mejores las películas. «El braintrust es, con mucha diferencia, lo más importante que hacemos —afirma el presidente de Pixar, Ed Catmull—. Se basa en la total sinceridad de las críticas.»