Quotes About Collaboration

To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

All good teams have that trust and that chemistry where you're able to get on each other and know it's for a better purpose.

People who come to Accenture want to be part of collaborative teams that are interesting and diverse. We think it's actually a real differentiator as we try to get people to come join us.

Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

Let's say that the teams I played in were all excellent. I played with many, many great players and incredible teams.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

the prime minister's physician concluded that "Monty wants to be a king." Eisenhower came to believe that "Monty is a good man to serve under, a difficult man to serve with, and an impossible man to serve over." That maxim would tidily sum up the Allied high command in Europe.

Yet Allied unity remained the central principle of his command and he would go to great lengths to preserve it, including self-delusion. "The team is working well," he wrote Marshall in September.

Another intent behind behavior is to get along with people. This is necessary if you want to create and develop relationships. When there are people with whom you want to get along, you may be less assertive as you put their needs above your own. If getting along is your top priority and people ask where you would like to go for lunch, you might respond, "Where would you like to go?

If you're dealing with people who you perceive want to get it done as their top priority, and if in your conversations with them, you acknowledge this and your communications with them are brief and to the point so as not to obstruct them, you will increase cooperation and decrease misunderstanding.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Rockefeller needed Molitor.

The person with true humility does not see himself as a lone fighter. People with humility see themselves as part of something bigger.

It's easy to focus on self. That is the natural inclination of people. But it is more productive to focus on the team. And it is even more important to focus on the work you must do to help the team.

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

co-location of its teams with its clients.

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell them what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, you own the solution.

Passion makes others feel like they are working not for someone but, rather, with others—and working for something bigger than the individuals involved.