Quotes About Collaboration

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

Para mejorar el equipo, mejore a las personas que lo integran.

The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, and added to by others.

Los juegos los juegan los individuos, pero los campeones son los equipos.

But empowering others by giving them your authority has the same effect as sharing information: You haven't lost anything. You have increased the ability of others without decreasing yourself.

Si usted se encuentra solo en la cima, eso significa que se adelantó a su gente y los ha dejado atrás. Si escala los montes del éxito solo, no es un líder, es un alpinista. Solo somos líderes si tenemos a nuestra gente con nosotros. Avanzaremos a un ritmo más lento, pero viajaremos juntos.

Trabajar duro no es suficiente, tampoco lo es ser excelentes en lo que hacemos. Para ser exitoso, debes aprender a establecer una verdadera comunicación con los demás.

Charismatic people not only want to win, they want others to win too. That creates productivity.

Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.

Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.

It's improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization." —JIM SINEGAL

transformation is possible for anyone willing to learn and live good values, value people, and collaborate with others to create a positive values culture.

Where Are You Holding Up Your Team? If you are not asking the members of your team how you can serve them, you may be holding them up. To find out, go to each team member individually and ask, "What could I do for you that would make your job easier, make you more successful, and make the team better?" Listen without interrupting to what people have to say, and then try to figure out ways to do what you can to serve them.

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

When you give of yourself, it benefits you, the organization, and the receiver.

Secrecy spawns isolation, not success.

To work together, we must have all three. Generosity: giving up resources for the whole. Humility: giving up your own importance, position, and power. Integrity: truthfulness so that others can depend on your character.

When we are fully and totally networked, we are powerful.1 Sanders believes that along with knowledge and compassion, your network is your most valuable asset.

Remember, none of us is as smart as all of us.

The day that I realized I could no longer do everything myself was a major step in my development as a person and a leader. I've always had vision, plenty of ideas, and vast amounts of energy. But when the vision gets bigger than you, you really only have two choices: give up on the vision or get help. I chose the latter.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate." Influence is an invitation anyone can make to another person.

choose to collaborate with others. There's no greater way to increase your potential.