Quotes About Collaboration

In the off-season, it wasn't games that the players missed—it was their teammates. It was the team.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

As the physicist John Wheeler said, "If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

a system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration—within schools, between schools, and with other groups and organizations.

Creative teams are dynamic.

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

Creative teams are dynamic. Diversity of talents is important, but it is not enough. Different ways of thinking can be an obstacle to creativity. Creative teams find ways of using their differences as strengths, not weaknesses.

Groupthink can diminish the group as a whole.

The key to raising achievement is to recognize that teaching and learning is a relationship.

Often we need other people to help us recognize our real talents. Often we can help other people to discover theirs.

Creativity is call and response: one idea can catalyze a multitude more in the minds of other people.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creative teams have a distinctive personality and come together to do something specific. They are together only for as long as they want to be or have to be to get the job done.

La función de un líder creativo no es concebir la totalidad de las ideas, sino impulsar una cultura en la que todos puedan generarlas.

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Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

They have marginalized the very capabilities our children need to create a more equitable and sustainable world, including creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, collaboration, and compassion.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Cooperation does not equal enjoyment.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights by partners in thought.

He accomplished this primarily by hooking up with his best friend, Henry Goldman, before the Goldman Sachs partnership. (They toyed with creating Goldman and Lehman but instead decided on splitting the profits 50/50.)

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.