Team Work Quotes Thursday, May 21, 2015 22:36
1. "Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."--Vince Lombardi 2. "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." --Michael Jordan 3. "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." --Andrew Carnegie 4. "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." --Helen Keller 5. "Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." --Patrick Lencioni 6. "I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition." --Jean-Francois Cope 7. "None of us is as smart as all of us." --Ken Blanchard 8. "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford 9. "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." --Henry Ford 10. "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." --Phil Jackson 11. "Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence." --Mike Schmoker 12. "It takes two flints to make a fire." --Louisa May Alcott 13. "Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." --Mattie Stepanek 14. "To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless." --Mike Krzyzewski 15. "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." --James Cash Penney You can do better with your team than you can alone. Here's to your--and your
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team's--success! What is your favorite quote to inspire your team?
I love the following metaphor on teamwork from Steve Jobs I recently found. He tells the story of a widowed man he had gotten to know in his eighties who lived up the street from him when he was a young boy. One day the older man said to him, “come on into my garage, I want to show you something.” He pulled out a dusty and old rock tumbler that consisted of a motor and a coffee can with a little band between them, Jobs recollected. He then invited him to the backyard where they collected some very regular and old ugly rocks. They put them in a can with a little bit of liquid and some grit powder. The old man then closed the can, turned the motor on and said, “come back tomorrow.” Jobs remembered the can making a big racket as the stones went around in the can. He came back the next day and when they opened the can and took out the rocks they were amazingly beautiful and polished. He states, “The same common stones that had gone in, through rubbing against each other like this (clapping his hands), creating a little bit of friction, creating a little bit of noise, had come out these beautiful polished rocks.” Teams, he states, are like these stones. Individually we can be fairly normal, ordinary and even a bit rough. But through the process of teamwork we can end up in a very different state. Jobs states that teams consisting of incredibly talented people who are passionate and are working hard towards something often times bump up against each other, argue, sometimes fight and make some noise. By working together they polish one another and their ideas and in the process create beautiful stones. I love this metaphor. Have you built up enough trust on your teams to allow bumping up against one another and passionately arguing on occasion? Passive, “follow the leader” types of teams are destined to fail. Each Team Work Page 2
member of a team brings something unique. They are unique in their gifts, ideas and arguments. Team members must feel like they can express themselves without embarrassment or retribution. Leaders who embrace the process of “tumbling stones” on their teams create more efficiency, better ideas, better problem solving and ultimately better teamwork. - See more at: http://www.teamworkandleadership.com/2014/10/teamwork-and-collaboration-apowerful-metaphor-and-story-to-share.html#sthash.SFJPcq5v.dpuf
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