quotations about teamwork
Make every team member feel valued. Success as a team only can come when each team member is aware of the importance of their role in the team's success.
HANK DARLINGTON
"How's your showroom team?", Supply House Times, May 18, 2017
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
KOBE BRYANT
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
MAGIC JOHNSON
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
One person cannot do everything proficiently. In teams, individuals are able to share their strengths in complementary roles to produce meaningful results. With the interpersonal dynamics teamworking creates, collaboration offers more than the sum of its parts.
VICTORIA BIRD
"Why Teams Matter!", Training Zone, June 14, 2017
Teamwork is key, but selling out your friends for your own survival can work too.
JASON NAWARA
"'Friday the 13th: The Game' Is a Hilarious And Brutal Game Of Adult Hide And Seek", Uproxx, May 27, 2017
Hand in hand with diversity, working in teams benefits individuals who are exposed to their colleagues' different approaches, experiences, perspectives and skills.
VICTORIA BIRD
"Why Teams Matter!", Training Zone, June 14, 2017
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
PAT RILEY
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
Teamwork enhances our skills of coordination and communication, and in a way it forces us to see the bigger picture, where individualistic dreams have to transcend into collective wants.
SHELLY ARISTIZABAL
This is Your Year: To Design and Live the Life of Your Dreams
A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Dr. William Gordon, July 8, 1783
When the head aches, all the members share the pain.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction.
PAT RILEY
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
Teamwork is consciously espoused but unwittingly shunned by most people in business because they are deathly afraid of it. They think it will render them anonymous, invisible.
LORENZO G. FLORES
Executive Career Advancement: How to Understand the Politics of Promotion
Teamwork is work.
MARGARET ANDREWS
"Teams: Lessons Learned", Inside Higher ED, May 17, 2017
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.
PETER DRUCKER
Managing the Nonprofit Organization
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.
PATRICK LENCIONI
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
A strong team can be a microcosm of the organisation, espousing its values and working towards a shared purpose and a common goal.
VICTORIA BIRD
"Why Teams Matter!", Training Zone, June 14, 2017
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept that role, and strive to be excellent in playing it.
TOM CREAN
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
Teams don't just make us better workers, they make us better people.
VICTORIA BIRD
"Why Teams Matter!", Training Zone, June 14, 2017
The team dynamic has to be a priority to sustain healthy and productive relationships. The more our team members valued membership in the team, the more motivated they were to perform.
MARGARET ANDREWS
"Teams: Lessons Learned", Inside Higher ED, May 17, 2017
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.
DAVE DEBUSSCHERE
attributed, Team Work: Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball