Quotes About Collaboration

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.

Instead, whatever we need, we just find someone who's eager to be a performance-based, profit-based sharing partner, and we joint-venture. If the first one turns us down, we ask, "Why?" Sometimes they give us an answer that I had never thought about. So, I figure out a preemptive way to overcome that, and the second or third person I go to will be on board. If

One of the keys to collaboration success is first recognizing exactly what those on the other side want or need most that is not being provided or achieved and showing them that your prospects, your plan, your strategy will—not can—deliver it to and for them in better ways, and more quickly and easily than any other option they have.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Always a good listener, FDR was at his best in these exchanges. "I want you to feel that you can come to me at any time in my office," he was soon telling union spokesmen, "and we can talk matters over. Let's get together for I need you to teach me your business and show me what's going on.

lo que el mundo actualmente necesita es una inyección de la clase de sabiduría que las mujeres tienen

Any serious solution to the problem can only be global.

Where would you intellectuals be without us lower grade morons to lead you around? Totally lost, that's where!

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Sumac and mountain mahogany band together

When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.

Stand up and take a hit! Commit publicly to cooperation.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

worst team member is the best predictor of how any team performs. It doesn't seem to matter how great the best member is,

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

In my experience, the more isolated the developers, the worse the resulting end product. It

we programmers spend our lives writing code so that our fellow human beings no longer need to write code

If you do not trust your people, you will not get their whole-hearted effort and you will not capitalize on the enormous creative potential of cohesive and motivated teamwork. It

The proper monitoring attitude is not to be distrustful, but instead, to show interest in their work.