What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, Werner he told us a lot of practical things. How to hang a hammock. He'd circle a map and give us a notebook with directions to get to certain places that were out of the way. He told us to drink the river water and not use purifications tactics that only "New Age assholes" used. He said that if we saw piranhas, we should jump in and swim with them. We did all of this. We took his word as gospel.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.
The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.
There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals.
Everybody understands that no matter what your day-to-day job is, when something happens, everybody gets involved to get it fixed and make it right. It really comes down to teamwork. When people come into the culture and see that everybody in the company plays a role to make things happen, they also act. When people don't, then it just doesn't work, and they don't make it.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
In union there is strength.
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
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.