TEAMWORK QUOTES II
quotations about teamwork
Hand in hand with diversity, working in teams benefits individuals who are exposed to their colleagues' different approaches, experiences, perspectives and skills.
VICTORIA BIRD
"Why Teams Matter!", Training Zone, June 14, 2017
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
PATRICK LENCIONI
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Teamwork is consciously espoused but unwittingly shunned by most people in business because they are deathly afraid of it. They think it will render them anonymous, invisible.
LORENZO G. FLORES
Executive Career Advancement: How to Understand the Politics of Promotion
Teamwork is key, but selling out your friends for your own survival can work too.
JASON NAWARA
"'Friday the 13th: The Game' Is a Hilarious And Brutal Game Of Adult Hide And Seek", Uproxx, May 27, 2017
Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
CHERYL A. BACHELDER
Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
One person cannot do everything proficiently. In teams, individuals are able to share their strengths in complementary roles to produce meaningful results. With the interpersonal dynamics teamworking creates, collaboration offers more than the sum of its parts.
VICTORIA BIRD
"Why Teams Matter!", Training Zone, June 14, 2017
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept that role, and strive to be excellent in playing it.
TOM CREAN
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
PATRICK LENCIONI
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
The whole point of teamwork is to share the responsibility so that everyone has a chance to lead.
SUZANNE GODDARD
"How to use effective teamwork in the workplace", Huddled, May 19, 2017
Teamwork enhances our skills of coordination and communication, and in a way it forces us to see the bigger picture, where individualistic dreams have to transcend into collective wants.
SHELLY ARISTIZABAL
This is Your Year: To Design and Live the Life of Your Dreams
Teamwork is important because it helps to overcome obstacles that one person could not overcome alone.
OLIVIA DESCHENES
"Player of the Week", Bridgton News, June 15, 2017
We = power
LORII MYERS
Targeting Success
In today's fast-paced and ever-changing expanding world, teamwork is becoming a more and more essential soft skill for everyone from the CEO to the night guard.
KYLE CABRAL
"Teamwork: How Men Effectively Work Together on the Same Project", The Good Men Project, June 16, 2017
Teamwork is only fostered through an egalitarian and conscious approach to management.
DAVID BOYNTON
"Dover brewpub says new pay scale, no-tipping policy will be fairer", New Hampshire Union Leader, June 10, 2017
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
MAGIC JOHNSON
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
KOBE BRYANT
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
A team is a mutual protection society formed to guarantee that no one person can be to blame for a botched committee job that one man would have performed satisfactorily.
RUSSELL BAKER
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
PHIL JACKSON
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
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.
PETER DRUCKER
Managing the Nonprofit Organization
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
PAT SUMMITT
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball