In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".
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.
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.
Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together they increase their awareness exponentially. Division of labor among the cells in the community offers an additional survival advantage. The efficiency it enables more cells to live on less. Evolution is based on an instructive, cooperative interaction among organisms and their environment enables life forms to survive and evolve in a dynamic world.
You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.
All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.
Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.