Quotes about Team Collaboration

Many a business depends for its success on some girl who is smart enough to see to it that her boss gets his work done, who sometimes even does his work for him, who keeps everybody satisfied and happy, and who has enough foresight to control new situations as they occur. How do you go about finding such a jewel? … RICHARD and RUBIN, How to Select and Direct the Office Staff

When you score, it is obviously a great feeling, but to give a great pass is also something special for me. I think it is also very under-rated sometimes, what we do.

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

A negative personality will not induce cooperation.

Grove encourages his people to work in small, autonomous work units in which everyone understands the system and their role in it. Each person contributes their knowledge, expertise and creativity. Team members are trained and motivated to produce to the best of their capacity. When crises arise, the team willingly puts in the extra time, energy and brain power to meet and beat the problems faced.

Mr. Carnegie's Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately fifty men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the definite purpose of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the power he accumulated through this "Master Mind.

The climb upward will be easier if you take others along with you.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.

You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

On any high-performing team I've been a part of, putting mission first, and team before self, was always key to collective success.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

In Adrenaline Mob, I'm not the leader, but I'm on the board of directors, and that's OK. I'm not stressing out over every detail. I'm sharing the load.

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

You look at the top guys at each position and they all help their teams win more than anything - scoring, assists, whatever.

I played a very background role in terms of trying to get the environment together but Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss have done a great job.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

people with negative attitudes don't have a learner's heart. Dumping such individuals off your team will hurt in the short run, but not in the long run. You have to remember that star performers with an attitude put a constant drag on everyone else. The price you pay for their performance is constant agitation. People with negative attitudes can't help but stir the pot.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.

They did not need to be close friends to work together. But they need to trust each other

Maybe coming together as a team meant they could rely on one another to help out when things weren't going the way they'd planned, to share roles and responsibilities.

Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.