It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
The path to greatness is along with others.
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.
Good luck needs no explanation.
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?
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.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
