Quotes about Team Collaboration

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.

Members of teams that tend to avoid conflict must occasionally assume the role of a "miner of conflict"—someone who extracts buried disagreements within the team and sheds the light of day on them. They must have the courage and confidence to call out sensitive issues and force team members to work through them. This requires a degree of objectivity during meetings and a commitment to staying with the conflict until it is resolved. Some

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.