Quotes About Collaboration

In these early years, one also sees Rockefeller using contributions to stimulate collaboration from others as he inched toward the concept of matching grants.

Rockefeller's partners "seldom knew what he was thinking but he always knew what we were thinking.

Rockefeller reiterated his faith that cooperation, not competition, advanced the general welfare.

Decisions were reached by consensus.

Financial partnerships are combustible affairs that frequently blow up as a result of personality clashes and disputes over money.

Rather than trying to accomplish everything through its own budget, it would awaken public opinion and stimulate government action.

In general, however, their two voices blended admirably together.

Instead of floating bond issues alone, the banks pooled their capital to share the risk of underwriting.

Many people knew that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were the authors, but the trio proclaimed their authorship to only a chosen few and then mostly after the first bound volume was published in March 1788.

Let him take his time, with gentle management. Make him feel that he is giving it, not that it is being taken from him with violence.

Lincoln's genius was his ability to draw upon the talents of others, meld together diverse personalities who often did not trust one another, and then listen to their advice, recognizing that it was sometimes wiser than his own.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Great things can be accomplished, when it doesnt matter who gets the credit.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Your energy can be devoted far more productively to collaborating with your child on solutions to the problems that are causing challenging episodes than in sticking with strategies that may actually have made things worse and haven't led to durable improvement.

Solving problems together? Yes, indeed. You and your child are going to be allies, not adversaries. Partners, not enemies.

If you respond to a child who's having difficulty putting his emotions aside so as to think through solutions by imposing your will more intensively and "teaching him who's the boss," you probably won't help him manage his emotions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

In the CPS model, holding a kid accountable means that the kid is participating in a process in which he's identifying and articulating his own concerns or perspectives, taking yours into account, and working toward a realistic and mutually satisfactory solution

You are our collaborators, our conspirators, breathing new life into us. And because every reader is unique, each of you makes each of us mean differently, regardless of what's written on our pages. Thus, one book, when read by different readers, becomes different books, becomes an ever-changing array of books that flows through human consciousness like a wave. Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli. According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

He described it as a collaboration with time and place, whose outcome neither he nor any of his contemporaries would ever live to witness, but he was okay with not knowing, Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

Nothing feels as good as building a team and empowering people, watching them grow and thrive.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts.

It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.