Quotes About Teamwork

A Fed, a local, and a consultant.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesn't need any credit. . . . He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway. —ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS

while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience, and it doesn't preclude the necessity to train and develop people so that their competency can rise to the level of that trust.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players. They're not coming from the paradigm of interdependence necessary to succeed in marriage, family, or organizational reality.

You can pretty well summarize the first three habits with the expression "make and keep a promise." And you can pretty well summarize the next three habits with the expression "involve others in the problem and work out the solution together.

What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It

Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

but they don't really want to listen; they want to manipulate. And synergy can't thrive in that

if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.

organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization.

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent—paralyzed or disabled or limited

Only if network marketers manage themselves effectively can they go on to managing their teams effectively.

But effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.

Management is essentially moving the fulcrum over, and the key to effective management is delegation.

People are intrigued when they see good things happening in the lives of individuals, families, and organizations that are based on solid principles. They admire such personal strength and maturity, such family unity and teamwork, such adaptive synergistic organizational culture.

Stephen R. Covey

Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It means