Quotes About Collaboration

I am training you to practice Peace that overpowers darkness. Collaborate with Me in this training. Do not grow weary and lose heart.

Try to depend on the help of the Spirit as you go through this day of life. Pause briefly from time to time so you can consult with this Holy One inside you. He will not force you to do His bidding, but He will guide you as you give Him space in your life. Walk along this wondrous way of collaboration with My Spirit. Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. PSALM 34 : 5

We're a good team, though neither of us is particularly house-trained, are we?

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

The future will be envisioned and built collaboratively—or not at all.

kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as perhaps you think it is. T. E. LAWRENCE, ADVICE TO BRITISH OFFICERS, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ARTICLES, AUGUST 1917

in the scramble to survive, founders often hire to solve immediate needs and simultaneously create long-term problems. This mistake is common enough that Bob Sutton wrote a book, The No-Asshole Rule, to help executives recognize the damage these hires cause to culture.5 No matter how many golden lectures a leader gives imploring people to "Be collaborative" or "Work as a team," if the people hired have destructive habits, the lecture will lose.

there are psychological benefits to making sure the people you are working with are well fed and associate you with good things.

It's often people whose jobs are abstractions that see a company as a zero-sum game where they have to fight and defend what's theirs to stay alive or get promoted.

it didn't matter if the sketches were "right"; what mattered was that his sketch improved the quality of the conversation,

You dramatically accelerate a team by putting its attention directly on the elements, factors, and decisions that are central to progress.

Regarding clarity, most teams in the working world are starving for it. Layers of hierarchy create conflicting goals.

The first day of a new team on a short deadline is fascinating anthropology. Everyone tries to figure everyone else out—who is talented, who has the same taste, who is easy or hard to work with, who has status—all at the same time they're trying to figure out the project itself.

GitHub has always been a fully distributed company, naturally reaching many of the same conclusions as Automattic about autonomy, empowerment, and trust.

Remote work demands social proactivity.

Often I made a teamwide bet about one of the data points we were going to collect to help keep us interested.

No matter how many golden lectures a leader gives imploring people to "Be collaborative" or "Work as a team," if the people hired have destructive habits, the lecture will lose.

Some conversations need to be real time. Brainstorming and teaching

For every awkward debate on a P2, there was often a private Skype chat where it was resolved. Matt set good examples for praising in public and critiquing in private.

Persuasion is stronger than dictation

Rarely did I think our work suffered because we were working remotely. But I did have times where I thought our work would be even better if we were in the same place and time more often.

If I started a rock band or a company, I'd want to share the same physical space often. The upsides outweigh the downsides. However, if the people I wanted to work with were only available remotely, I'm confident we could do great work from thousands of miles away.

One side effect of having teams is there will always be things that fall through the cracks. Teams create territories.