Quotes About Collaboration

leaders in many companies believe that developers should not talk to customers because this is a waste of valuable developer time.

It would be much better to assign work to established teams than to reconstitute teams around projects.

the most successful development occurs when developers talk directly to customers or are part of business teams.

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

Focusing exclusively on local measurements has a tendency to inhibit collaboration beyond the area being measured, because there is no reward for it.

When team members personally create an environment in which they can be proud of their work and work processes, you have made a good start.

focused on interpersonal relationships between bright, strong-willed adults

She was in charge of the 'red team,' the group taking blood samples. (The group collecting urine to check pesticide exposure levels called themselves the 'gold team' in response.)

Apparently the most effective way for firms to remain competitive is to 'hire smart people and let them talk to one another'.13

A united army of sheep can defeat a divided army of wolves.

Alone you are a warrior; together we are an army.

As eagles fly with eagles, the great walk with the great.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

Technology won't save humankind. Humans will.

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. —J. G. BALLARD

Coldplay's ultimately show-stopping opus "Fix You" might never have seen the light of day had Chris given up and caved in when Guy politely asked of him one morning: "So, 'tears stream down your face, and AAAAH.' What's that all about, then?

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

In 2016 especially, news reporters began to consciously divide and radicalize audiences. The cover was that we were merely "calling out" our divisive new president, Donald Trump. But from where I sat, the press was now working in collaboration with Trump, acting in his simplistic mirror image, creating a caricatured oppositional demographic and feeding it content. As Trump rode to the White House, we rode to massive profits. The only losers were the American people

So I was sitting behind the console looking at all these bands and thinking, "Most of the lyrics these guys are singing are pretty dreadful. I know I can do better than that." But I didn't want to be the guy singing, so I came up with this idea: maybe what I'll do is find a band and write the material, and they'll produce the material and I'll promote the band out there doing my songs.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.

To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

The future of your organization and the potential of your employees are intertwined; their destines are linked." - Matthew Kelly, The Dream Manager

In any successful business, everybody has to be part of the sales force.