Quotes About Teamwork

Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.

How many'd we do? is the question frequently asked at the end of the shift, when the cooks collapse onto flour sacks and milk crates and piles of dirty linen, smoking their cigarettes, drinking their shift cocktails

I had always believed that if somebody who worked with me went home feeling like a jerk for giving their time and their genuine effort, then it was me who had failed them—and in a very personal, fundamental way.

As a cook, your station, and its condition, its state of readiness, is an extension of your nervous system - and it is profoundly upsetting if another cook or, God forbid, a waiter - disturbs your precisely and carefully laid-out system.

Um auxiliar realmente bom é uma descoberta bela e rara. Nos melhores casos, há uma relação quase telepática entre o chefe e o auxiliar, requerendo apenas uma olhadela ou uma expressão do rosto para comunicar resmas de informação.

Não era isto que eu queria de um subchefe. Se os cozinheiros não o respeitavam, eu dizer-lhes que o tipo os podia despedir não ia criar esse respeito.

A ideia era contratar para a minha equipa a maior quantidade possível de ajudantes leais – rapazes e raparigas que respondessem diretamente perante mim, em quem pudesse confiar para me protegerem a retaguarda – antes que o gerente da cozinha me impingisse os tipos dele, malta que não me diria nada se o meu cabelo estivesse a arder, e muito menos se havia alguém à minha espera com a faca pronta.

Não dá certo ter dois cozinheiros fortemente armados a esmurrar-se no meio da linha por causa de uma situação melindrosa, tendo à volta recipientes cheios de óleo a ferver e facas afiadas como navalhas.

Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.

Okay, now you know the players that belong in your allocation buckets, and you know the key to building a winning team: diversify, diversify, diversify!

An in-the-box organization is filled with people who are focused on themselves and on being justified. Imagine, in contrast, an organization where everyone is focused on others and on achieving results.

The culture of blame that is so prevalent in organizations is replaced with a culture of deep responsibility-taking and accountability.

In this way, a problem that had gone on literally for years was solved nearly overnight when the leaders stopped simply assigning responsibility and began holding themselves strictly accountable. This is now the model in that company for solving every problem encountered.

I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.

She was certain that it was wise to prevent Wilson and Brown from working closely together during sorties inside Rama. Nicole chastised herself for not having raised the issue with Borzov on her own. She realized that her mission portfolio included mental health as well, but somehow she had difficulty thinking of herself as the crew psychiatrist. I avoid it because it's not an objective process, she thought. We have no sensors yet to measure good or bad mental health.

All right," Otto Heilmann said a few minutes later, "we must now choose our leaders.

I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]

Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!

You have room for three more?" M'Adoc asked Sin. "Sure," Sin said. "We can always use more fuel for the pyre." Kish snorted. "For the record, I don't burn well." Xirena ruffled his hair. "Trust me, human, all of you burn well." "That's right," Simi added. "The Simi can ignite most folks and fry them up extra crispy." Kish

Now that we're all together, nothing can stop us!

But what's the good of being boss if you don't trust your workers? You may think differently. But I'm not asking you.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.