Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.
A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.
The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.
The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential. . . the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.
With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen.
The one man team is a complete and total myth.
Collaboration is multiplication.
There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
