Quotes About Teamwork

human responses aren't additive in the same way that objects are additive. Whereas four lightbulbs illuminate a room more effectively than three lightbulbs, and three loudspeakers fill a room with noise more effectively than two loudspeakers, two people are often less effective than a single person.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

The best people to collaborate with will not only be people who have a diverse background, it will also be those who have the strengths that you lack.

Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?" The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.

When your explanations to staff about their role in achieving the "bigger picture" create enthusiasm and gain their commitment.

Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce a collective intelligence that greatly outweighs the capability of any single individual.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

Good ball players make good citizens.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

There is nothing that as a team we can't solve.

Moshe Adler, in his article "Overthrowing the Overpaid," points out, economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith, writing more than two hundred years ago, "concluded that what a person earns is determined not by what that person has produced but by that person's bargaining power. Why? Because production is typically carried out by teams…and the contribution of each member cannot be separated from that of the rest.

Especially in a small organization, it was important that everyone work well together. As I was unable to tell from an interview how a new hire would mesh with our corporate culture, I told everyone that they were temporary for the first six months, as were we for them. Sometime during that period, if we mutually agreed, they would become regular employees.

People around the world today, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequences, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports.

Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment's notice. Moreover, I assembled a team of hair-splitting, nitpicking, adversarial researchers and archivists to review each and every sentence, collectively ensuring that each fact and fragment of a fact was backed up with the necessary black and white documents.

Do not expect the best and the collective results if you hire the idiot ones for any job.