Quotes About Teamwork

coordination of two or more individual minds, working in perfect harmony for a definite purpose.

Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.

way too many cooks in the same tiny kitchen, most of whom never have to taste the food.

We are largely collaborative—except when institutions get in the way.

What is needed and demanded today, in the age of the knowledge worker, is not robotic obedience but persons who can think; who can innovate, originate, and function self-responsibly; who are capable of self-management; who can remain individuals while working effectively as members of teams; who are confident of their powers and their ability to contribute. What the workplace needs today is self-esteem.

what we see is no longer "management" and "workers" but an integration of specialists. Each of these specialists has knowledge and expertise not possessed by the others in the organization.

bloc, effectively guaranteeing that

He had always figured it was going to be a one-way journey, he said, and now he wanted his leader to know that he did not intend to slow down the team if they had the chance to escape. He would find his own way. "Nonsense," Rønneberg said flatly. "You've kept up with us until now, and you can keep up with us to Sweden." For this decision the young leader did not offer a vote.

a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.

As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says.

How do you fill it?' Connor asks. 'How do you fill the … the space?' And to Cam's own amazement, he has an answer. 'Bit by bit,' he says, 'and not alone.

Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit.

A study at Google found that the #1 dynamic that set successful teams apart from other teams was the presence of psychological safety, the ability of team members to take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed (Rozovsky, 2015).

Too many cooks spoil the broth, and half-a-dozen gentlemen aboard one ship are as bad as two kings of Brentford.

A selfless devotion. High-impact people don't care about who gets the credit, and they never complain about the role they fill.

The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!

There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don't know it's there until it's gone away.

But what are we going to do with a load of guns?" asks Pete. "I don't know, Brains, what are we going to do with a half-track full of guns?" Pinky asks. Brains chuckles. "Same thing we do every night, Pinky—" "Fort up and wait for reinforcements," Pinky says flatly.

So once again Janice proves that not only is she a nerd, she's a useful nerd who gets to stay on the team.

Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds—and then taking their mess right on the chin.

This is no way to run a business," I told Dim Sum, and then looked at Tons of Fun. "And you might want to lay off the carbs, you fucking wildebeest.

In "open-source" software, where anyone can contribute to a project, the mantra is "With enough eyes, all bugs are trivial." Likewise for astronomy: With enough eyes, we'll see the asteroid with our name on it—and early enough to do something about it.

Having an end date for your quest through the noveling unknown is like bringing along a team of jetpack-wearing, entrepreneurial Sherpas.

Whether we're up 2-0 early in the second half, or we're up 1-0 with 10 minutes left in the game, my mind-set is the same when I come in the game. It's to help keep that lead, whatever way I can.