Quotes About Collaboration

There was always some tension between those who thought their role was to keep things in order and those who were urgent about producing necessary changes. But most penguins intuitively understood that you needed both to thrive in this new era.

Pull Together the Guiding Team. Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change—one with leadership skills, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills, and a sense of urgency.

Communicate for Understanding and Buy-In. Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy. Go beyond "stopping resistance" to creating more and more people who want to help you.

A guiding coalition made up only of managers—even superb managers who are wonderful people—will cause major change efforts to fail.

Empower Others to Act. Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so. Encourage others to remove barriers and make true innovation happen.

The aim of leadership is not to demonstrate the superiority of the leader, but to bring out all the strengths of people that will move them forward to the desired goal.

Communication works for those who work at it.

A capacidade de improvisar bem é um talento altamente respeitado e pode conduzir a uma interação de facto interessante entre os músicos intervenientes. Até pode tornar-se competitiva, à medida que os músicos se estimulam reciprocamente a chegar a novos patamares.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. ~ Peter F. Drucker

Architecture is the work of nations.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own.

In all likelihood Smith planted the seed of the Empire State Building in the head of Raskob sometime in the spring of 1929. If Raskob was going to build a skyscraper and if he was going to make a go of it, he could do worse than financing some of it himself and finding others to join in the venture, while having his friend Al Smith serve as the front man.

Richmond H. Shreve, William F. Lamb, and Arthur Loomis Harmon, who teamed up to design the Empire State Building

Shreve and Lamb both joined the firm of Carrère & Hastings.

Their working arrangement was the ideal professional relationship, one with the qualities of yin and yang. Shreve's proclivities were organizational—his was the genius that solved the operational and administrative problems that had the Empire State Building completed in one year. Lamb's proclivities rested more naturally in the design field. Each assumed responsibility in his chosen field, but neither abdicated responsibility in the other.

he then ran his own firm from 1913 to 1929, during which time he designed the award-winning Shelton Hotel. Often identified with the Empire State Building, Harmon was sometimes a little embarrassed by the honor. He joined Shreve and Lamb in 1929 when they were already roughing out the building's plans, and

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

If you start to feel old - start working with young people.