Quotes About Collaboration

Instead of making a change and expecting others to just accept it, take time to explain the why behind the decision, including alternatives, and why the final choice made the most sense. If you can ask for ideas and input ahead of time, it's even better. Finally, acknowledge how the decision will affect everyone.

I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.

Every text, after all, is a lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work. What a problem it would be if a text were to say everything the receiver is to understand - it would never end.

The working-class world was split into factions, which spent the greater part of their energies in fighting one another instead of concentrating upon the common enemy.

Mi perdoni tanta veemenza, Dmitrij Petrovi?» disse Å trum. «Ma lei mi insegna che i fisici la amano non solo perché è un'autorità, ma perché la sua autorità non l'ha mai usata per sopraffare qualcuno, perché la gioia di lavorare insieme a lei non viene dal dogmatismo, ma dalla possibilità di discutere vivacemente, persino con foga.

think of Amazon's "two-pizza rule" — no team should be so big that it can't be fed with two pizzas).

The best leaders have the right questions, but turn to their employees, customers, advisors, and the crowd to mine the answers. Every business is more valuable to the degree that it does not depend on its top leader.

Great growth firms are a lot like great jazz bands. While jazz is improvisational and entrepreneurial-like, the discipline underlying it allows even musicians who have never played together before to perform a rocking jam session.

Dans ses entreprises il a besoin d'aides et de collaborateurs ; il lui faut ce qu'il appelle lui-même « des hommes ». Diogène les cherchait tenant une lanterne, lui il les cherche un billet de banque à la main.

But she wasn't an I. She was a we.

France has surrendered, Isabelle. Certainly this fact has not escape you. Didn't you hear General de Gaulle? He said ... And who is this General de Gaulle? Why should we listen to him? Marechal Petain is a war hero and our leader. We have to trust our government. Are you joking, Vianne? The government in Vichy is collaborating with Hitler. How can you not understand this danger? Petain is wrong. Does one follow a leader blindly?

I am relying on you—a criminal and a communist—to help me make a difference.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

Basketball Rule #6 A great team has a good scorer with a teammate who's on point and ready to assist.

A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

her counterpart at the FBI, Darren Phillips; James Templeton

you were only as good as the people you surrounded yourself with.

Claudia Gould, the woman Rapp lived with and who also happened to be Coleman's logistics director

All children in every school deserve an education that inspires curiosity, encourages creativity, requires critical thinking, urges collaboration, and nurtures compassion.

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

The shortest and best way of making your fortune is to let people clearly see that it is their interest to promote yours.

Now see," she says: "each stands only by help of the other. One by itself cannot stand. Therefore the ji is like mankind. Without help one person cannot live in this world; but by getting help and giving help everybody can live. If nobody helped anybody, all people would fall down and die.