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Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.
Sep 18, 2025
Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
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.
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
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.
Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.
The path to greatness is along with others.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
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.
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.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
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.
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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