Quotes About Teamwork

It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means

There is no end of good that comes from being married to a smart woman.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Together, we are the unchanging staff upon which all the other notes are strewn, sometimes in harmony, and else dissidence, but always in a beautiful key.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only de-motivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up

Love is a kind of military service

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.

Not that either he or Kaden was lazy. They were both always eager to pitch in, Kaden fixing the wheel on Berdi's wagon without any prompting, and Rafe proving himself as an experienced farmhand, clearing the trenches in Berdi's vegetable garden and repairing its sticky sluice gate. Gwyneth and I both watched with more than a little interest as he swung the hoe and lifted heavy rocks to reinforce the channel. Perhaps,

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang." ~ Mary Kay

establish the vision; sell your dream, make it clear and alive; trust your people; don't interfere with their work; and give feedback at critical points.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing goals through other people.

leaders in many companies believe that developers should not talk to customers because this is a waste of valuable developer time.

No one has yet figured out how to manage people effectively into battle; they must be led," wrote John Kotter

Focusing exclusively on local measurements has a tendency to inhibit collaboration beyond the area being measured, because there is no reward for it.

When team members personally create an environment in which they can be proud of their work and work processes, you have made a good start.

she took over the lead spot in Glass House, a group that recorded only a few records.

In Developing Superior Work Teams, Dennis Kinlaw writes, "Two realities are shaping organizational life in America today. The first reality is that all organizations are faced with the same challenge: they will either produce consistently superior services and products, or they will soon not be producing much at all. The second reality is that superior teamwork and developing superior work teams have been demonstrated to be the only consistent method for producing superior goods and services.

Quality begins when everybody in the organization commits to never sending rejects or imperfect information to the next process.