Team & Culture
214 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 184 from other voices.
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- I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
- I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.
- If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
- If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.
- An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
- If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.
- If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
- If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.
- If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.
- In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
- In terms of picking people to work with, pick ones that have high intelligence, high energy, and high integrity.
- Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
- Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
- Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
- Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
- It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
- It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
- It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
- It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get into a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.Charles E. SorensenSourced
- Teamwork makes the dream work.
- It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.
- Leaders can command people to act, but can’t command people to feel. The more you push people to respect and trust you, the more they push back. Loyalty can’t be demanded. It has to be earned.
- Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.
- Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
- Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- No dream is ever chased alone.
- No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
- No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
- No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
- One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.Peter F. DruckerSourced
- One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
- Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
- Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.
- Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.