Quotes About Collaboration

Two men, three, a woman—four people total.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.

Nadie es mejor que el grupo, y el brillo individual no conduce automáticamente a unos resultados sobresalientes. Una mentalidad egoísta puede infectar el espíritu colectivo.

To be able to work together, communication is the biggest thing,' says Smith. 'And I think that comes from a team that has good links from off the field . . . a team able to spend time together and talk to one another and be honest with one another. It's incredibly important.

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and his wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Leaders mobilize others to want to struggle for shared aspirations, and this means that, fundamentally, leadership is a relationship. Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

When you give people a choice about being a part of what's happening, they're more likely to be committed to a project. Is there a piece of something you are working on that you could open up to others? It

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

What is your future, and mine, becomes ours. We prepare each other for surprise.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

continued working on their joint project in the States, while she did

An effective network is not a unidirectional conduit of benefits; it thrives on mutual exchange and support.

If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.

groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table. Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives.

I'll do it. I'll work with the Juggernaut Collective.

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

This reduces the risk of "worked in dev, now an ops problem.

I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them.

It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of rivals. The powerful competitors who had originally disdained Lincoln became colleagues who helped him steer the country through its darkest days. Seward