Quotes About Collaboration

Even apart from a shared interest in averting joint loss, there almost always exists the possibility of joint gain. This may take the form of developing a mutually advantageous relationship, or of satisfying the interests of each side with a creative solution.

Rather than resisting the other side's criticism, invite it.

John O'Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.3 And my own experience confirms this.

First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.

and they pooled their money to set up the new bank.

He said that he felt that the time had about come when the companies should work together with a view of preventing other companies from engaging in the business

Since he never owned more than a third of his company, he needed the cooperation of other people.

The partners shouldered unbearable tasks.

In choosing partners, Pierpont wouldn't tolerate a refusal.

For a time, they were held back by Benjamin Brewster, and Rockefeller, unwilling to move without a consensus, yielded against his better judgment.

beneath the competitive veneer, the Rothschilds were eager to come to terms with Standard Oil:

As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.

As time passed, the strains between Gates and Harper grew intolerable.

Political divisiveness doesn't lend itself to having a coordinated, cooperative, collaborative response against a common enemy. There is also this pushback in society against anything authoritative.

Be friendly with the cookhouse detail.

He believed that anything could be reverse-engineered. If one human or group of humans put something together, then another human or group of humans could take it apart again. It was a basic principle. All that was required was empathy and thought and imagination. And he liked pressure. He liked deadlines. He liked a short and finite time to crack a problem. He liked a quiet space to work in. And he liked a similar mind to work with.

The tall one sets the strategy, and the fat one works the angles. In

The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.

I'm wide open to ideas, Agent

He said, "We need to find a way of getting you guys home before you get hurt. You want to work with me on that?

Too many cooks spoil the broth, many hands make light work, great minds think alike, fools never differ.

Nakamura asked, "Do you have a partner?" "Romantically?" Bramall said. "Or professionally?" "Professionally." "No.