Quotes About Collaboration

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." —John Ruskin

power based on mutual trust and respect, which makes people open to hearing one another, learning from one another, and giving to one another willingly out of a desire to contribute to one another's well-being, rather than out of a fear of punishment or hope for a reward.

It works because helping people be "right" is more productive than proving them "wrong.

Leadership is not about me. It is all about them.

It's an interesting equation: Less me. More them. Equals success.

But the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

out shortcomings, suggest solutions, and collaborate

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

As a people leader, your job is simple: You are the link between organizational mission-critical objectives and the effort your employees invest in achieving those objectives. And you just have to keep those two pieces working together smoothly.

I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

Overconfident humans who don't listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.)

It's hard to make a proper argument when you're both on the same side.

Giliead stepped up beside Ilias, leaning his hip on the railing. He watched Ander's retreat grimly, saying in a low voice, "He wanted you to ask him first if we could try that cove, instead of just telling the crewman." Ilias snorted. Good warleaders let everyone do their jobs instead of finding excuses to prove they were in charge.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

book finally took shape. The contributions of Susan Ginsburg, my agent, are incalculable and very much appreciated

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

To survive and succeed in exercising leadership, you must work as closely with your opponents as you do with your supporters.

We all shouldn't try to do the same work. Rather, each of us should pay attention to our own responsibilities. Otherwise, we cannot be of one mind and one heart. We must allow the works to be varied so that each of us can remain with what God has entrusted to us. We should simply do the work at hand.

You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

These days, training is increasingly about getting a horse to work "with" us instead of "for" us, and that takes knowledge, not just of what a horse can do and be made to do, but how a horse thinks and can learn to trust us.