Quotes on Team Management

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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

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.