Quotes About Teamwork

The very best teams all have one thing in common—their members share a common purpose and feel accountable for a common outcome.

Failing fast involves egoless work. Egoless programming. Egoless operating. Egoless analysis. To remove ego, structure projects as a team effort. No solo acts. No product is any one person's "baby." Otherwise, people can't criticize a product without criticizing the person. To fail fast and learn quickly, remove ego and make everything a team effort.

Division of labor tends to bring with it a division of responsibility that can distance everyone from the one factor they all share: results.

You can't make a renaissance person anymore, because the range of what you would need to do is just impossible. But you could actually assemble a renaissance team."7 The integrative thinkers rely on their "renaissance teams" to broaden salience, maintain sophisticated causality, and create a holistic architecture in their drive for creative resolution.

In teams where there are significant power differences, when team members with less power are better able to speak up, the team has more success implementing new technology changes.

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As for nationalism, it has no right to exist except in football matches.

Many mickles make a muckle.

During planning, especially short-term planning, it's tempting to set up "stretch goals" or to "encourage" the team to do "just one more feature." Please do not do this. It's devastatingly destructive. The reason is that the team will in fact try. Eager to please, they'll unconsciously hurry. They'll leave out just a few tests. They'll leave the code not quite as clean as they might have, just to squeeze in one more feature.

Maybe calling it being hitched ain't the prettiest way to say you're married, but it's the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you're working together and depending on each other, and you're sharing the load.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The practice of giving the A allows the teacher to line up with her students in their efforts to produce the outcome, rather than lining up with the standards against these students. In the first instance, the instructor and the student, or the manager and the employee, become a team for accomplishing the extraordinary; in the second, the disparity in power between them can become a distraction and an inhibitor, drawing energy away from productivity and development.

Imagine how profoundly trustworthy you would be to the people who work for you if they felt no problem could arise between you that you were not prepared to own. Imagine how much incentive they would have to cooperate if they knew they could count on you to clear the pathways for accomplishment.

Let's draw straws," said David. We used dune grass. We didn't pull it out—Jack warned us not to hurt the plants—but snipped it neatly with a penknife. The shortest blades went to Terry and Rafe

FACT The Native Americans invented the game lacrosse.

DJ can stay here and help Mabel with the fire." "I don't need any damned help with the fire," Mabel said with irritation. "I'm sure you don't," DJ said soothingly, then grinned and added, "but I bet between the two of us, we can make it burn hotter.

I think we're supposed to ask too much of each other; otherwise, nothing would ever get done.

Remember, Mr. Jenkins, you're great on Benjamin Franklin's saying, 'We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately

We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately.

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random.