Quotes About Teamwork

To win in sports, members of the team must always keep the big picture in front of them. They must remember that the goal is more important than their role—or any individual glory they may desire.

NBA superstar David Robinson remarked, "I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they're willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal.

Individuals score points, but teams win games. In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, individuals will learn how to score more points so their teams will win more games.

Fíjese en las organizaciones más exitosas del mundo y no hallará un solo líder, sino que verá a muchos directivos poderosos laborando juntos para generar su éxito.

The boss drives his workers; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; the leader, "we." The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says, "Go"; the leader says, "Let's go!

people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.

Consider this skeletal anatomy of an organization: • The wishbones wish somebody else would do the work. • The jawbones talk a lot but do little else. • The knucklebones knock what everyone else does. • The backbones actually do the work! Encourage

Better players make you a better player.

Whenever people on my team come to me with a problem, I ask them to prepare at least three solutions to that problem.

GROWING SYNERGY—their effectiveness is greater than the sum of the contributions

List the names of the members of your team. Next to each person's name, write a sentence or phrase that describes that person's perspective or outlook. The sentence must be positive, giving the person the benefit of the doubt for how he or she sees the world. If you're having difficulty describing someone's perspective, you need to get to know him or her better so that you can articulate the person's point of view.

Los líderes llegan a ser sobresalientes no por su poder, sino por su habilidad para empoderar a otros.

Los equipos optimizan el potencial de un líder y minimizan sus debilidades.

Para lograr algo grande de verdad, despójese de su ego, y prepárese a formar parte de un equipo.

Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.

A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.

Si usted desea mejorar una organización, mejore a sus líderes. Si quiere hacer crecer una organización, haga crecer a sus líderes. Cuando usted aumenta la cantidad de líderes que tiene y los mejora, el potencial de la organización se incrementa en gran manera.

However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.

Livingstone replied, "If you have men who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all." That's what top leaders want from the people working for them: they want individuals who are willing to do what others won't.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it." That's

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

Para mejorar el equipo, mejore a las personas que lo integran.