Quotes about Team Collaboration

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can't do everything, don't want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.

Everything is always against you when making a movie, and if you don't have a solid blueprint that the entire team can get behind and understand and then execute, then you're going to be lost on the set.

Part of the reason a hit show is a hit show is because of the people - good, solid, decent people.

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.

The experiences you gain by doing something solo - you have such a great work effort there as well, one we all have now - we can all bring it back to the group.

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.

I don't solve problems on my own. I solve them with my group of people and my group of players.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

Leadership calls for POWER, and power calls for COOPERATION.

Everyone has the same end goal to produce a product they can be proud of; projects that fail are typically missing the leadership of a strong producer with proactive strategic abilities and an in-depth understanding of the process.

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Every year, I speak to our new associates and give them this advice, although in my own words. 'This isn't like school,' I tell them, 'where you want to get your hand in the air and give an answer quickly. The only grade here is 100. Deadlines are important, but at Blackstone you can always get help in meeting them.'

As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out of meetings all the time, bouncing stuff back and forth with the level designers, the art department, the animation team, so forth.

I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.

I don't talk during production meetings, people don't generally say anything.