Quotes About Collaboration

Harry S. Truman said, "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Ignorance, mediocrity, and mistakes run rampant when organizations fail to link the right people to the right information at the right time. This

In short, if you are a boss, ask yourself: 'Who have I anointed as stars?' Think of your workplace more broadly and ask, 'Do we anoint people who bolster or bring down others' performance and humanity?

all great technologies are blends of other technologies.

This is our company—it's not theirs—it's ours.

Effective scaling depends on believing and living a shared mindset throughout your group, division, or organization.

variation leads to excellence in social systems

Be warned, however, that when groups work mostly through e-mail or conference calls (rather than face-to-face), they tend to fight more and trust each other less.

In the 1970s, MIT professor Tom Allen showed that the closer people sat to one another, the more frequently they communicated—not just face-to-face communication, but via all media including telephone calls.

We also found staff who do NOT tend to be assholes and identified them with a small sticker on their ID badge. New staff and med students are told to use these people as resources. They are staff who have agreed to be willing to help and answer questions, and are easily identified.

After a while, he and others tried a different approach, where they were out in the open and had more casual exchanges and there were fewer barriers. Tim emphasized that his job was "to get to know the people and how they work" and, he said, "I can't learn much sitting in a private office.

The engineer said his solution is to orient himself "as a comrade inside of the walls, therefore bypassing the confrontation." He avoids the asshole's wrath by expressing empathy and finding common ground—shared interests such as hobbies, sports, or politics

I told the Booze Brothers that I would set up a conference call with Ernest, and that if we all kept calm and worked together, the "points" (that old standby word for "problems") in question could be "handled.

They formed what they called the "wall of peace.

sitting in the office with three other

But perhaps the greatest threat is that we lack the mechanism of consensus, a way of making up our collective minds.

Respect for the importance of the other person's role in producing high-quality outcomes • Belief in the other's ability (competence) and willingness to fulfill his or her formal role responsibilities • Care about the other professionally and personally • Consistency between what people

whom do you turn to for information to get your work done?) and a problem-solving or brainstorming network (whom do you typically turn to for help in thinking

Our interviews also suggest that energizers get more from those around them.

Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.

the case for a cooperative business strategy in few words: "The spirit of brotherhood and service should lead all who are engaged in industry to regard each other not as antagonists struggling to win advantages from each other, but as co-operators, sharing with one another in their common purpose to serve their community.

is odd, is it not, that there should have been need of a leader? But there was. Two men do not need a leader, I suppose; but three do, and four most certainly, else who will settle arguments, plan forays, suggest the place or form of amusement, and generally keep the peace?

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Russell-Einstein Manifesto. Published in London on July 9, 1955,