Quotes About Teamwork

Ne'er a day will pass before us When we have not tried our best, Kept our cauldrons bubbling nicely, Cast our spells and charms with zest. Full of joy we mix our potions, Working by each other's side. When our days at school are over Let us think of them with pride.

If it's going to be two against one, make sure you aren't the one.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

The hour was late, but the men, members all of an elite corps of law enforcement agents, wanted to "wrap the case up" before dawn.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.

Behinf every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

Determined people working together can do anything.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Love at Work Is a Lot of Work!

In high-performance teams, "the leaders managed the principles, and the principles managed the team.

The capability of self-organizing teams lies in collaboration. When two engineers scratch out a design on a whiteboard, they are collaborating. When team members meet to brainstorm a design, they are collaborating. When team leaders meet to decide whether a product is ready to ship, they are collaborating. The result of any collaboration can be categorized as a tangible deliverable, a decision, or shared knowledge.

In a self-organized team, individuals take accountability for managing their own workload, shift work among themselves based on need and best fit, and take responsibility for team effectiveness. Team members have considerable leeway in how they deliver results, they are self-disciplined in their accountability for those results, and they work within a flexible framework.

Leaders who want to create adaptive, self-organizing teams steer rather than control—they influence, nudge, facilitate, teach, recommend, assist, urge, counsel, and, yes, direct in some instances.

The quality of results from any collaboration effort are driven by trust and respect

The feature delivery approach helps define a workable interface between customers and product developers.

Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline.