Quotes About Collaboration

A good general rule around communication is to include as few people as necessary in synchronous communication (like meetings), and to go for a broader audience in asynchronous communication (like email).

When put on the spot, most people won't say much about this, but there are usually a few things that everyone would like to do in the next five years: get promoted, learn something new, launch something important, and work with smart people.

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

Companies maintain lively web sites to put their view across but entrepreneur-owners have not stepped forward to do the same to help organize the mass of little owners and to provide a way for them to share views. Sure, there are bloggers writing about anything and everything, but there don't seem to be shareholder-controlled sites to exchange thoughts and ideas about a company that participants own in common.

Oprah: She needs people to step up—people who support her, give her some breaks, step in and do some of those things with her children. We're not meant to be isolated and alone. We're actually meant to work together. So when a single mom is living on a limited income, trying to manage four children, trying to be mother and father, and she feels overwhelmed or feels like it's impossible to do it all—it's because it is impossible.

BrainFacts.Org: This is the most reliable, accurate, and accessible resource for anyone interested in the brain. It is a public information initiative that is a collaboration between the Society for Neuroscience, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

The way to get things done is to not mind who gets the credit for doing them." – Benjamin Jowett, British theologian and classicist.

the best school leaders are present in classrooms a lot, working constructively and supportively with teachers.

Teachers should take advantage of every opportunity to observe and learn from other teachers.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

It was time to call on my old paisan Steve Van Zandt.

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.

You can be a leader without being intimidating. The horse can be your partner without being your slave. I'm trying to keep the best part of the horse in there. I'm not trying to take anything away from him.

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

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You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.

According to biologist Lynn Margulis, it was this collaborative approach which allowed life to survive the first toxic pollutant holocaust—the spread in the atmosphere of a gas lethal to earth's horde of early inhabitants. The killer gas was oxygen. But mitochondria living in the new eukaryotic cells saved the day, gulping oxygen before it could do its harm and turning the murderous vapor into food for their protectress and for the other members of her cellular commune.