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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Sep 17, 2025
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
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.
Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
One man cannot make a team.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Two heads are better than one.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
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. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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