Effective Team Quotes

#1. Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

Ken Blanchard

#2. Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.

Bill Crawford

#3. You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Andy Stanley

#5. A whoosh and the lines of fire sucked back toward Ayden, flames disappearing into his hands. Back to normal.
"Ayden's the most visually effective," Matthias said.
A burning scent lingered but no damage to the "hottie" in front of me. I know, I know, but I couldn't resist.

A&E Kirk

#6. We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

Steve Nash

#7. Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.

Andrew Carnegie

#8. The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.

Lee Child

#9. Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Vannevar Bush

#10. Bryan finds that appeals to character are effective for adults as well. His team was able to cut cheating in half with the same turn of phrase: instead of "Please don't cheat," they changed the appeal to "Please don't be a cheater." When

Adam M. Grant

#11. If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Sylvia Plath

#12. As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jonathan Levine

#13. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Jim Rohn

#15. It takes time to earn trust and it takes time to learn to be open enough to work in at team in an effective way so that every contribution is "valuable" regardless of your personal opinion.

Auliq Ice

#16. Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

Jack Welch

#17. I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

Crystal Woods

#18. The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Bill Courtney

#19. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

Robert Bales

#20. You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

Peter R. Scholtes

#21. Yes, death by away team. Very effective on this ship, Jenkins said.

John Scalzi

#22. I'm gonna stick your head so far up your *ss your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!

Dwayne Johnson

#23. The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success ... holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.

Steve Maraboli

#24. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Gene Morton

#25. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.

Thomas Gordon

#26. I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.

Adolfo Cambiaso