Quotes About Collaboration

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

Treating employees like owners and business partners—that's how you can create value and make this more than just a feel-good story.

Watching Nicholson talking Towne was like listening to Bob Dylan playing with the Band.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

Raise the question of what do we want to create together, even for an established institution.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

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.

Leaders who use coercion are interested in their own goals and seldom are interested in the wants and needs of followers. Using coercion runs counter to working with followers to achieve a common goal.

4. El factor yo-a-nosotros

Look how you figured that out together. You made a plan, you listened to each other, you made a diagram … I don't think you would have figured it out without doing that.

Those who understand such things say that the two partners must always assist each other if a relationship is truly to founder and turn into flotsam.

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.

Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.

Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.

Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.

And the LORD has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

so that all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work