Quotes About Collaboration

I like the music we make together whether there's music or not.

Jack, there are only two of us here. One of us is going to push him out, one of us is going to catch him. Which job do you want?

She talked to him everyday; she told him everything, rarely making a decision without having a conversation with him first. Even those decisions that had little to do with him, like what subject to choose for a paper she was writing.

On the occasions when city-states did work together, it was usually in temporary alliances for mutual self-protection.

in the full Assembly.

it was not always war with its urgent necessities that could pull people together and turn a vision into a practical project.

Getting everyone to set their expectations on how they will work together and consciously think about what it will take to create a high-performing team will yield huge dividends. To build team trust, make sure you talk about it. Personally

As accountability deepens and people move Above The Line within the organization, a shift occurs from "tell me what to do," to "here is what I am going to do, what do you think?"—a truly profound and empowering approach to getting results.

Humility is a deep, authentic acknowledgment that we can't do it alone, that we should be mindful of the perspectives others bring, and that we can be better and do more with input from others.

True humility is not just about admitting you can't solve, resolve, or fix every problem on your own. Rather, humility promotes a very personal and real recognition that the experiences and opinions of others matter, and that they can make a difference in your success. One

The key to team wins is for everyone in each position to understand what the other positions are doing and why they're doing it." If teams don't collaborate effectively across functional boundaries, they lose.

The very best teams all have one thing in common—their members share a common purpose and feel accountable for a common outcome.

Failing fast involves egoless work. Egoless programming. Egoless operating. Egoless analysis. To remove ego, structure projects as a team effort. No solo acts. No product is any one person's "baby." Otherwise, people can't criticize a product without criticizing the person. To fail fast and learn quickly, remove ego and make everything a team effort.

Division of labor tends to bring with it a division of responsibility that can distance everyone from the one factor they all share: results.

Remember that when you "lift where you stand" and help others to rise Above The Line—everyone benefits.

Getting a team to act on the feedback they receive from one another creates real traction and ensures true progress toward results.

Any method of negotiation may be fairly judged by three criteria: It should produce a wise agreement if agreement is possible. It should be efficient. And it should improve or at least not damage the relationship between the parties.

The challenge is not to eliminate conflict but to transform it. It is to change the way we deal with our differences

THE METHOD 2. Separate the People from the Problem 3. Focus on Interests, Not Positions 4. Invent Options for Mutual Gain 5. Insist on Using Objective Criteria

the ongoing relationship is far more important than the outcome of any particular negotiation.

You can't make a renaissance person anymore, because the range of what you would need to do is just impossible. But you could actually assemble a renaissance team."7 The integrative thinkers rely on their "renaissance teams" to broaden salience, maintain sophisticated causality, and create a holistic architecture in their drive for creative resolution.

people don't respond well to being told what they must do.

In teams where there are significant power differences, when team members with less power are better able to speak up, the team has more success implementing new technology changes.

a team: Members are interdependent around a team task. Members know who is a member of the team. Members know the extent of the team's authority. Membership is stable over time.