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Teamwork Quotes

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The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

– Katzenbach & Smith

The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.

– Lewis B. Ergen

The path to greatness is along with others.

– Baltasar Gracion

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential…the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.

The goal is not to have a team, but to increase productivity and employee satisfaction.

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

– Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.

– Ned Lautenbach

Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.

– Marvin Weisbord

Teamwork is working together — even when apart.

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

– Katzenbach & Smith

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.

Teams share the burden and divide the grief.

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the “rubber stamp meets the road”; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

– Peter M. Senge

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.

Teamwork doesn’t mean everyone runs to left field when the ball is hit there.

Teamwork doesn’t tolerate the inconvenience of distance.

Teamwork is the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

– Michael Jordan

TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More

Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

– Peter Senge

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid — and that stops teamwork.

– Will Schutz

Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

– Dennis Kinlaw

Teams are not ends in themselves; they are a means by which to achieve other organizational goals.

– Jeanne Wilson, Richard Wellins, William Byham

Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

– Tom Bouchard

Teams are the means, not the end.

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

– Buchholz and Roth

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