Quotes on Team Building

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

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. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.