Quotes About Teamwork

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Margaret Heffernan

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years ...

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

It was as if Lucca was a beautiful kite and Willingham was flying her with an invisible string. Roche, the Ninety-fourth Engineer Detachment Commander, who oversaw about twenty-six dog handlers from the army, air force, and marines, had never seen a dog and handler so perfectly synchronized.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

Many people feel that playing the political game involves devious plotting or blatant self-promotion. But in reality, "politics" is what naturally happens whenever people with different goals, interests, and personalities try to work together.

efforts of the people you're working with, not just from your own solitary work.

What can I do to get people more engaged? What can I do to get people working collaboratively? What do others need from me? What do they have to contribute that I haven't been noticing?

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

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.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

It's so much more friendly with two.

Jimmy and I were always partners.

If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

The company makes the feast.

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.