Quotes About Teamwork

We have a tendency to romanticize independence and see autonomy as a virtue. In my experience, such a view is a career killer. Autonomy is a life vest made out of sand. Independent people who do not have the skills to think and act interdependently may still be good individual producers, but they won't be seen as good leaders or team players.

Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group, if not three. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success to do things otherwise impossible.

We are committed to the mission and to each other's success: We will not let each other fail. In fact, we will ensure each other succeeds. We will elevate each other as we work together to achieve

Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation.

Stop driving yourself—and everyone else—crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful.

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

SUCCESS IN LIFE = (THE PEOPLE YOU MEET) + (WHAT YOU CREATE TOGETHER).

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

When the job blows up in your face, remember Rum Jungle. We'll need every man - and then it won't be enough. = Retief in Retief

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

We're both pretty lousy, but together we are better than ten others.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

If you say 'we're in this together,' I'm going to hurl.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

His players don't sit around telling hateful-affectionate stories about him. Someone might say of him, as former Packers great Henry Jordan once said of Lombardi, "He treats us all the same—like dogs,

In the off-season, it wasn't games that the players missed—it was their teammates. It was the team.

It didn't matter if someone else scored more goals or had more points or was the league's MVP; there might be many leaders on the team, but the Rocket was its spirit.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

Creative teams are dynamic.

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

Creative teams are dynamic. Diversity of talents is important, but it is not enough. Different ways of thinking can be an obstacle to creativity. Creative teams find ways of using their differences as strengths, not weaknesses.