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Quotes About Teamwork

It's not a good sign when they're still attaching parts to the space shuttle at liftoff time.
~ Gene Kim
Psychological safety slips away so easily, like when the leader micromanages, can't say 'I don't know,' or acts like a know-it-all,
~ Gene Kim
this is what an effective network is all about—when you can assemble a group of motivated people to solve a big problem, even though the team looks nothing like the official org chart.
~ Gene Kim
now some of the best engineers in the company are working on making everyone else more productive. That's the way it should be, she thinks.
~ Gene Kim
the developers will eventually be responsible for testing their own code, with QA taking a more strategic role, coaching and consulting.
~ Gene Kim
These days, great teams doing consumer-oriented products have ratios of 1:6 because it's that important to create products that people love.
~ Gene Kim
Repetition, especially for things that require teamwork, creates trust and transparency.
~ Gene Kim
Another way we can enable more market-oriented outcomes is by enabling product teams to become more self-sufficient by embedding Operations engineers within them, thus reducing their reliance on centralized Operations.
~ Gene Kim
Tuckman phases of teams, going through form, storm, norm, and perform. She's ready to start norming and performing!
~ Gene Kim
Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.
~ Gene Kranz
This brings us back to what I've been telling you about the importance of finding the right partners. You can't do it all yourself, and neither could any of us. Each of us on our own could only go so far. Together, we would go all the way.
~ Gene Simmons
Ah." Vale stepped away from the side of the zeppelin and offered her his hand. "Then I believe we can work together, Miss Winters.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Tell the brat whatever you think will work. Just keep her within bounds, and then with luck we can all avoid unnecessary harshness. Also, hurry up and get over that pneumonia. We don't have time for sickbed drama. The letters from the Cardinal and from Ao Guang about the missing worlds are disturbing—we're still understaffed, and there's too much to do.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Well then. You better make sure your wife can play too. That's my advice to you, Matthew Flanagan
~ Gennifer Choldenko
Yours truly, pack animal.
~ Gennifer Choldenko
Brian kept forcing them to go back out on tour.
~ Geoff Edgers
This material focuses primarily on marketing, because that is where the leadership must come from
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
For the proverbe seith that "manye smale maken a greet."
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Relief pitchers have only recently begun receiving proper recognition. When Whitey Ford rose at the New York Baseball Writers banquet to receive the Cy Young Award for the 1961 season, he said he had a nine-minute speech but would deliver only seven minutes of it. He would let Luis Arroyo, who had saved so many of Ford's wins, do the final two minutes.
~ George F. Will
Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.
~ George F. Will
Don't be afraid to employ people who will force you out of your comfort zone.
~ George Foreman
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
~ George Foreman
To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on.
~ George Foreman
Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.
~ George Foreman