Team & Culture
214 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 184 from other voices.
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- Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
- 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.
- Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
- Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.
- Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
- Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
- Strong leaders earn loyalty. Weak leaders demand it.
- Submerge your own ambitions and help whoever you can in the company. Work together as a team.
- Success in this world is always a matter of individual effort, yet you will only be deceiving yourself if you believe that you can succeed without the co-operation of other people.
- Success is built upon loyalty, faith, sincerity, co-operation and the other positive forces with which one must surcharge his environment.
- Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.
- Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.Stephen R. CoveyCommonly attributed
- Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
- Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.John WoodenCommonly attributed
- Teamwork allows common people to obtain uncommon results.
- Teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice—and a strategic one.Patrick LencioniCommonly attributed
- Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
- Teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
- Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.
- The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.
- The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
- The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
- The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.
- The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.Vince LombardiCommonly attributed
- The desire to belong often overpowers the desire to improve.
- The enemy of accountability is ambiguity.
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- The folks on the front lines—the ones who actually talk to the customer—are the only ones who really know what's going on out there.
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- The great manager is the man who knows how to surround himself with men much abler than himself... He who will succeed is not a specialist, excepting so far as it is his special function to understand the human machine.
- The greatest danger to most organizations is not external threats, but internal weaknesses.
- The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
- The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor
- The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
- The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
- The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.
- The Lisa people wanted to do something great. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The difference shows.
- The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
- The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.