Quotes About Collaboration

On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

This is clearly not the most expedient route—we learned that writing a collaborative novel doesn't amount to doing half the work, but rather, doing twice the work—but it was a wild new kind of work, a work that takes the other's half, and raises it by half. This felt intimate—showing

My husband and I collaborated on a novel and we didn't fight. We fought more while "collaborating" on the assembly of an IKEA baby crib (that crib almost did require marriage counseling).

When the Levee Breaks," by Memphis Minnie. Memphis Minnie wrote this with her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy; it was later covered by Led Zepplin.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

Nazism and use the alliance among Fascists to steer the Nazis away from the racial policies.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

It takes a poet to read a river and a community to make a response.

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!!

There's no I in team, but there is in idiot.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

They are running illegal personality constructs. They are collaborating in the torture and murder of said constructs. I think it may be a fair assumption that they are not the sort of people to be trusted when they tell you that your anonymity is assured.

True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one – to be imposed on the other side if necessary – that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship

Teams have to really get to know each other, work through many issues, overcome various obstacles, and establish winning strategies in order to experience this caliber of cohesion.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

You and me, we are a dying breed, we have to look out for each other. You will build your brewery here. I will help you.

The Capacity of Your Team Will Determine the Potential Impact of Your Ministry

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Friends and colleagues with the same chosen shortlist usually agree and co-operate but rarely ever with others.