Top 100 Quotes About Team Building
#1. 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
#2. A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
Bruce Rauner
#3. Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.
Rob Thurman
#4. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
#5. I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
Ike Barinholtz
#6. I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
Jamie Oliver
#7. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Marlene Caroselli
#8. Yes, yoga may make your company a better place to work for people who like yoga. It may also be a great team-building exercise for people who like yoga. Nonetheless, it's not culture.
Ben Horowitz
#9. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas
Tony Dovale
#10. We are adults undertaking a team-building activity in a professional capacity, so naturally we spend several minutes horsing around, striking poses with our paintball guns and making sound effects. Joshua and Sergeant Paintball watch us like orderlies at a mental facility.
Sally Thorne
#11. Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.
Don Kardong
#12. We email, teleconference, webinar, but we are not in the room with the people. It is a false connectedness - artificial team-building. It's like eating the menu instead of the food.
Linda Robinson
#13. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
Dean Smith
#14. Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.
Morag Barrett
#15. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
Fred Wilson
#16. You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.
Kathryn Minshew
#18. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.
Carlos Wallace
#19. I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
Aaron Schock
#20. People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
Ben Horowitz
#21. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#22. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Max McKeown
#23. The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.
D.A. Wallach
#24. Maneuvers toward you). It was exciting for the two junior members, but also for those of us who were more seasoned, because we were building the team, adding to the experience of jumpers who'd later be capable of joining us for even bigger formations. I was to be the
Eben Alexander
#25. Unlike a lot of other game companies that, once they launch a game, downsize their teams radically, our plan is to keep the team together and continue to focus on building content.
James Ohlen
#26. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself
Tony Dovale
#27. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!
Brian Houston
#31. Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity
Sunday Adelaja
#32. Building a team is the nucleus for every piece of success.
Chris Ducker
#33. It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
Dale Earnhardt
#34. Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
Carlos Wallace
#35. The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.
Sean Quinn
#36. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Patrick Lencioni
#37. People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.
Meg Whitman
#38. Leaders #1 job is to help their people, teams, leadership, and culture, to be #FutureFit...by supporting People, Planet & Profits, in a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace... today.
Tony Dovale
#39. There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team.
Michael Joling
#40. Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.
Pat Summitt
#41. It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#42. It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.
Larry Gelwix
#43. When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
Ross Perot
#44. The building block of organizations should be small teams. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, at one point had a "two-pizza team" rule,41 which stipulates that teams be small enough to be fed by two pizzas.
Eric Schmidt
#45. Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.
Jane Ripley
#47. We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
Bill McCartney
#48. I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.
Mitch Lasky
#49. Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.
Ashish Patel
#50. In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.
Bill Courtney
#51. Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.
Paul Rankin
#52. Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.
Tony Dovale
#53. I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.
Herman Cain
#54. The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.
Lawrence R. Klein
#55. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
#56. Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
Fred Wilson
#57. Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
Patrick Lencioni
#58. A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Lee Iacocca
#59. When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord.
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
Jay Samit
#61. It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Casey Stengel
#62. Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that ... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#63. A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page
#64. Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel
#65. As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.
Jane Ripley
#66. No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there's no stopping you.
Judith Hill
#68. Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
Vince Lombardi
#69. Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Dean Smith
#71. To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
Pat Summitt
#72. We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.
Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation
Tony Dovale
#73. There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
Bill Belichick
#74. Communication is a major key to building any strong relationship, whether it is the relationship one has with oneself or with others. Sinful communication weakens yourself, weakens those you care about, and thus weakens your team.
Shay Dawkins
#75. The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
Gene Hackman
#76. It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#77. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
John Katzenbach
#78. You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.
Herb Brooks
#79. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.
Tony Dovale
#80. It does not matter who is in your team, what matters is who they will become because of you
Sunday Adelaja
#81. Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?
Meredith Belbin
#82. We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
Bob Ainsworth
#83. If you don't know how to train then you can never grow.
Honeya
#84. When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.
Michael J. Saylor
#85. APM focuses on team management, from building self-organizing teams to developing a servant leadership style. It is both more difficult, and ultimately more rewarding than managing tasks.
Jim Highsmith
#86. Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
Pat Gillick
#87. People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Allan Fromme
#88. Building a team is just the beginning, keeping it together means progress and working together is success.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. Building companies rules of the game have all changed today. It used to cost millions of dollars to do anything substantial. You'd get VC backing & then you'd hire the team to build it. Now it's deploy or die.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#92. I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#93. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.
Henrik Fisker
#94. Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.
John Doerr
#95. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet
#96. You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
Saji Ijiyemi
#97. I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
Bill Belichick
#98. Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.
T Jay Taylor
#99. When building a team do not look at people's weaknesses, instead look at their strengths.
Sunday Adelaja
#100. It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!
Dan Jacobs
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