Quotes About Teamwork

Annie Jump Cannon (left) and Henrietta Leavitt, whose unsung labours and incisive deductions made Hubble's breakthroughs possible.

There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I'm wrong, to challenge me, to sharpen my decision making. Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

In the teams you quickly learn that you have to depend on your teammates to get their job done, while you concentrate on your own part of the mission.

my full-time job is working with my wife, Melinda

Rather than be the powerful out-front leader, she was quietly leading from behind by encouraging individual members of this peer network to step up and lead.

Authentic leaders, such as Mulcahy, recognize the collective power of an empowered team far exceeds that of any single individual, and they rally teams around a common cause.

The hierarchical, directive leadership style so prevalent in the past century is fading fast in favor of today's collaborative leaders, who

Every church, every team, every organization demands and deserves a "vision embodier," someone whose life values and commitments personify the vision. Cut them and they bleed the vision.

It is impossible for any one church to do it all.

Great teams cross-train and never have to hear, 'I don't know how to do that.

If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.

The key to success is playing to people's strengths.

In order to build a cohesive unit, it helps to start with great players.

We do not choose as captain of a ship the most highly born of those aboard.

Coaching is leadership, and leadership is leadership, whether in a gym, an office, a classroom, or a family.

Trump had failed the President Lincoln test. He had not put a team of political rivals or competitors at the table, Priebus concluded. "He puts natural predators at the table," Priebus said later. "Not just rivals—predators.

If you have natural predators at the table," Priebus said, "things don't move." So the White House was not leading on key issues like health care and tax reform. Foreign policy was not coherent and often contradictory. "Why?" asked Priebus. "Because when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens.

If you want to do it now," Priebus continued, "Pence is prepared to step up, and Condi Rice will come in as his VP.

I realized," Bannon said later, "I'm the director, he's the actor.

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Leadership was not only about taking charge, it was also about giving your team everything they needed to succeed, and then getting out of their way. It meant knowing when you should be the first person charging through a door and when you should stand down and let someone else do it. Harvath

Swamp creatures prefer to work with their own.

That compromise means you don't always have to be the strong one, Gideon. You can do the heavy lifting on occasion, and you can let Eva do it sometimes. Marriage isn't about whether you're strong enough as an individual. It's about how strong you are together and the luxury of taking turns carrying the load.

Sometimes you'll lead, sometimes you'll follow. Expect you'll grumble about the following part for a while yet.