Quotes About Teamwork

One of the fundamental problems in organizations, including families, is that people are not committed to the determinations of other people for their lives.

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

involvement and approval, including the president. But the president did not feel threatened because this man's strength complemented his strength and compensated for his weaknesses. So he had the strength of two people, a complementary team. This man's success was not dependent on his circumstances. Many others were in the same situation. It was his chosen response to those circumstances, his focus on his Circle of Influence, that made the difference.

Tell me, Bruce, what's it like to be second? Never the captain. Always the lieutenant.

agreed with Harry Truman. It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.

Because your employee must first appreciate that you are on her wavelength and understand her thinking completely.

A true leader has the courage to represent upper management, not run it down. A true leader says we. 6.

One does not 'manage' people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths andd knowledge of each individual - Peter Drucker

Good leaders continue to seek creative input from their direct reports. This practice is not only good for the business, it's also highly motivational for both parties to the conversation.

Unconsciously, managers without leadership habits will often seek, above all else, to be liked. Rather than holding people accountable, they let them off the hook. They give non-performers the uneasy feeling that everything's fine. They are managers who seek approval rather than respect.

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

After the capsize, it takes them an extraordinarily long time to learn how to become a survival team, and it never works flawlessly. They are not varnished heros. At times they are fearful, weak, defeatist, petty, jealous, self-interested. Frankly, I believe how Jim reveals all the lesser but very normal human qualities that are impediments to grace makes this crew more believable than the characters found in many tales.

Don't compromise, when you can synergize.

How are you supposed to get everyone to pull in the same direction when they are all pulling primarily for themselves?

The individuals in the high-IQ group might have scored better individually on intelligence tests, but when it came to solving problems as a group, diversity matters more than individual brainpower.

If you looked at the map of idea formation that Dunbar created, the ground zero of innovation was not the microscope. It was the conference table.

Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that today's athletes churn through the rosters of sports teams so rapidly that a fan can no longer support a group of players. He is reduced to rooting for their team logo and uniforms: "You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city.

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

If you're having fun, if you're working with people you love working with, then the results are always going to be exciting.

People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, 'I love you so much. Can we just run some.'

I love working with Paul Wesley. He's my best friend.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.