Quotes on Team Member

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

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

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

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

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop a richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

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

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

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

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