Quotes About Teamwork

The best thing for a bachelor is to get a wife who will really cooperate in the great work.

ANT  (ANT)   n.s.[æmett, Sax. which Junius imagines, not without probability, to have been first contracted to æmt, and then softened to ant.]An emmet; a pismire. A small insect that lives in great numbers together in hillocks.

Church means giving up the fantasy that we can find fulfillment and righteousness alone. It means doing things at inconvenient times with eccentric people in sometimes clumsy ways--because life is a team game, and on judgment day God will have nothing to say to us if we think we can come without the others.

You'd probably be pretty good at it. But even with terrific language skills, you couldn't come close to describing what it's like to be a team player, Griff. Because you don't know.

Because the only thing that made you part of any team was wearing the same color jersey. You made no friends. Teammates admired your game. Those who didn't envy you idolized you. But they didn't like you, and that was okay with you. You didn't give a damn so long as they carried out the plays you called.

Maybe we should hear Jack's plan first," Jonah says. "He hasn't even thought of one," I say with an edge. "I'd like to hear Abby's idea," Jack says. Right answer, kid. "Yeah, me too," Jonah says, smiling at Jack. I give Jonah the side-eye.

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

The product managers now meet together as a group. They think about what they can accomplish together to meet their group performance. Now

People learn together by working together. Don't waste time on fake team-building activities such as anything physical. Those activities might be fun for some people, but they don't help people learn how to work together at work.

Keep those people close who support your efforts and do not try to sabotage you. Ask

Communication is the sister of leadership

People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs

The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance

The more that people share decisions affecting their working life, the more they are motivated to carry them out

Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task. Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task

Work groups and organization come into being because there is a task to be done that is too big for one person

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

So, what qualities must you have to be a good delegator? There are five main tips: 1 Choose the right staff. 2 Train them. 3 Take care in briefing them, and ensuring their understanding of the `why' and `how to' oftasks delegated to them (and in imparting to them an understanding ofbusiness aims and policies). 4 Try not to interfere - stand back and support. 5 Control in a sensible and sensitive manner by checking progress at agreed intervals.

We know now that someone in a leadership role has three core and overlapping functions: to achieve the tasks, to hold a group together as a unity, and to meet individual needs.

Keeping the notion of dignity front and center creates a workplace where people want to be.

The musher's motto has always been Drive the dogs you have, not the dogs someone else has.

For an organization consisting mainly of engineers, whiteboards served as the corporate equivalent of the water cooler.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.