Quotes About Collaboration

On a team, he said, "you can't only have architects. You also need bricklayers.

The less identifiable one person's effort is, the less effort they put in.

The antidote is the knowledge that someone else in the group is leaving nothing in reserve.

They are democratic with their time—communicating with everyone equally and making sure all team members get a chance to contribute.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Individuals don't win, teams do

Without ever discussing it or making a conscious shift, we reflexively engaged one another in meetings. This did not mean we always agreed with one another; some of my most heartfelt arguments were with my fellow female Senior Directors. But we took one another's ideas seriously. This meant never leaving them simply hanging in the air, which typically happened in large group discussions.

It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Collective will supplants individual whim

My political writers are likely to be my fellow science fiction writers.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

5 things common you should look in your investors and team members: 1) commitment, 2) chemistry, 3) comfort, 4) capability, and 5) craving.

We don't accomplish anything in the world alone and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry off one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that create something.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Some honored me by giving me the secret of their works

if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.

strength of weak ties": the idea that each of us has strong ties with some people and weak ties with others we'd call acquaintances—and that it's our acquaintances, with strong ties of their own, who are bridges to people, information, and opportunities we wouldn't otherwise find.

At school, when they had to do group projects, Spencer always insisted on doing most of the work. The others will just screw it up, she always thought. They won't do it as well as I can.

Writers need each other.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.