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That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.
Sep 17, 2025
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.
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.
Teams working on disruptive ideas need to be small enough that they can be fed by no more than two pizzas.
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
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.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
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.
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
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.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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.
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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.
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
The path to greatness is along with others.
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
A successful team beats with one heart.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Many hands make light work.
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.