1.
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
Pat Summitt
"Teamwork is akin to a familial bond; it involves commitments, entanglements, frustrations, and disagreements. Nevertheless, the benefits are worth the effort."
2.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
Sam Walton
No other thing can quite take the place of a small selection of carefully chosen, opportune, honest compliments. They are completely free and worth an incredible amount.
3.
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
Patrick Lencioni
4.
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Mark Twain
5.
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
Meredith Belbin
7.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
8.
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page
9.
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.
Pat Summitt
10.
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
John C. Maxwell
11.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
Tahir Shah
12.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Andrew Carnegie
13.
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Temple
14.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Lee Iacocca
15.
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.
Chris Bradford
16.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Walton
17.
Protecting underperformers always backfires.
Jack Welch
18.
What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?
Laszlo Bock
19.
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
Bill McCartney
20.
I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
Paul Pierce
22.
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Casey Stengel
23.
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
Confucius
24.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
25.
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
John Katzenbach
26.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer
27.
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
William Schutz
29.
Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
Bill Gates
30.
Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet
31.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
Donald Knuth
32.
A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.
John C. Maxwell
33.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Peter Drucker
34.
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.
John Katzenbach
35.
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
Clay Buchholz
36.
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
Max De Pree
37.
If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.
John P. Wheeler III
38.
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Max McKeown
39.
The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
John Katzenbach