Quotes about Team Collaboration

Following group chat at work is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda.

If a worker's motivation is slumping, it's probably because the work is weakly defined or appears pointless, or because others on the team are acting like tools.

Remember, there's no such thing as a one-hour meeting. If you're in a room with five people for an hour, it's a five-hour meeting.

Following group chat at work is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. It's completely exhausting.

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡

Release yourself from the 9am-to-5pm mentality. It might take a bit of time and practice to get the hang of working asynchronously with your team, but soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

there are times when nothing beats talking to your manager in person or sitting in a room with your colleagues, brainstorming

Lancaster says that the magic around a reinvention intervention is that the people involved in the process have a say but the establishment—the leadership—doesn't. "I was there as one member of a team wearing jeans and working alongside everyone else," says Lancaster, "not as a boss, owner, or CEO.

When a leader fails to provide the proper culture, one will still exist; it can best be described as one of every man for himself, each acting in his own best interests and to heck with the interests of the company.

Pope sees that keeping people on the same page takes total follow-through. "We told the groups though our action," he explains, "that we're not hard-nosed and [it isn't that we] don't care about what they think. We proved to them they have a voice and we ought to listen to it. And we know that if we're really listening we ought to react.

If I'm the boss / parent, why can't I just tell my subordinates / children what to do?

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup.

We cannot talk about a player who is not here.

We are footballers, so if you've got to play with someone, you've got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can't get on with everyone you work with.

You have to play defense for the pitchers.

I am an attacking bowler, but I can change my plan and go however the team wants me to go.

For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

The on-field stuff, setting fields, changing bowlers, that's the easy part. It's making sure all your players are on the same page with what your plans are and what you want from your players and the team. That's the biggest challenge and what you really need to get right if you want your team to be successful.

When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.

I always play football in my team, and I know that if you play too much long ball, then it's difficult.

If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.