Quotes about Team Collaboration

In business, if we don't communicate clearly, we shrink.

but the reality is people want to work for more than just money. They want to work to build and sustain a community they love. As we shared our personal dreams with each other, my work was no longer about me reaching my goals, it was about me contributing to a team in which we'd all tied our dreams together.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two." – Lee Iacocca

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

we divided the scope into four quadrants and let each person have a quadrant of the scope." That was one each for Fredkin, Lick, Minsky, and McCarthy—a format that quite possibly represented the first "windows" ever to appear on a computer screen.

Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

After all, the better the developers you have, the better the product you build.

Virgil was getting the impression that the group lacked cohesiveness.

But I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.

That's why you have a partner," Vann said. "So you can vent at me. Afterward. Now, come on. Let's get back to work." "Where to now?" "I want to get a better look at that hotel room," Vann said, and sucked on her cigarette. "Trinh hustled us through it pretty quickly. I'm ready for a slow dance.

The key ingredient to stardom is the team.

The telephone operator and all others who may perform less "important" tasks will not feel important unless you, the leader, teach that them they are valued and explain how their contribution helps the company as a whole. Individuals who feel they don't matter will perform their jobs as if they don't count.

Personal greatness is not determined by the size of the job, but by the size of the effort one puts into the job. This applies to everyone on the team.

Drawing up plans such as these diagrams is the easy part. I did it thousands of times. Creating a successful organization with people who execute the plans at a level of Competitive Greatness—now, that's the challenge of leadership.

I told players at UCLA that we, as a team, are like a powerful car. Maybe a Bill Walton or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Michael Jordan is the big engine, but if one wheel is flat, we're going no place. And if we have brand new tires but the lug nuts are missing, the wheels come off. What good is the powerful engine now? It's no good at all.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group — that's teamwork.

For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.

Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.

If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.

Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody's got to give up a little bit of their individuality.