Quotes about Team Collaboration

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

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You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —HARRY S. TRUMAN1

First Who ... Then What. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats—and then they figured out where to drive it. The old adage "People are your most important asset" turns out to be wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are.

Por um grupo todo de líderes, com responsabilidades diferentes – observou a diretora, pensativa. – O chefe continua exercendo seus deveres e responsabilidades específicas, assim como as outras pessoas da equipe. Mas o que estou entendendo é que, em um grupo de líderes, todos assumem a responsabilidade individual pelo sucesso do conjunto, influenciando e inspirando os outros a cumprirem seus deveres da melhor maneira possível.

If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

When you keep working with somebody, you find out a lot of things about them if you don't know each other personally.

When you first come to practice, you learn the guys. You're going to play with them for the next couple seasons. You just need to know what shots they like, how they run, how good a lead they are. You need to know your personnel.

I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can't be asked to get into every decision.

'Phase' is a special song to me, and I wanted the video to make you feel like you are on a journey with me. My team and I shot this video three different times, and every time I got it back, I wanted to go a step further.

The defensive phase is about the team, so it's about balance.

With Kyrie and KD, if you're telling me I get to come out here and pass to two phenomenal scorers and get 10 assists a game and maybe be in second gear a lot of times with my scoring, I'm fine.

My job is to just focus on basketball and you know, I don't really get a chance to really pick and choose who I play with.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

We have a lot of guys from different backgrounds in pit crews and even in the front offices of NASCAR and race teams.

Working on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' everything was there on the paper and in the room and within the four walls when all of us were together. It was just all there.

When I joined Walmart, I just had a team mindset, but I look back on it now, and I realize some of those early jobs I had, I was trying to help other people and rally the team. It ended up people started looking at me as a leader.

Well, the team that created 'Starcraft 2' is probably the most experienced real-time strategy team in the industry - there are members of that team who have worked on all our RTS games going back to 'Warcraft.'

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company.