Quotes About Work Teams

#1. Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

Dennis F. Kinlaw

#2. Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Ron Brown

#3. I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Henry Cloud

#4. With an accelerated schedule of launch in just two months, NASA and contractor launch and support teams labor steadily with six-day work weeks by day and night shifts

Martha Lemasters

#5. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Jay Chiat

#6. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!

Abhishek Ratna

#7. For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot Jr.

#8. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

John Katzenbach

#9. Your team will get stronger when you begin to build yourself. Teams are made up of individuals who work together ... and get their own job done. What are you doing to be sure that your job is being done perfectly?

Jeffrey Gitomer

#10. In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.

Price Pritchett

#11. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.

Ken Robinson

#12. When teams are asked to work together to analyze problems and design solutions, the quality is higher.

David J. Anderson

#13. Compared to other generations, millennials tend to be more collaborative, are accustomed to working in teams & have a passion for pressure.

Joanie Connell

#14. Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

John Katzenbach

#15. Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Alan G. Robinson

#16. Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#17. I know how teams work. I've been doing this for 30 years.

Giovanni Trapattoni

#18. A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.

Tim Armstrong

#19. Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.

Stephen Covey

#20. I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

Raul Ruiz

#21. In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET

Tony Dovale

#22. I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

Melissa Bean

#23. When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

Andrew Luck

#24. I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.

Todd Park

#25. The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

Frederick Lenz

#26. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.

Tony Dovale

#27. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Douglas McGregor

#28. People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

Jim Mitchell

#29. I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

Angela Ahrendts

#30. I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Michael Michele

#31. It's also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.

Walter Isaacson

#32. I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

Edie Campbell

#33. Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

Patrick Lencioni

#34. Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

Sean Durkin

#35. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

#36. Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

Jill Vialet

#37. Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

#38. I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

Alan Lewis

#39. However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.

Michael Delaware

#40. Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

Pat Riley

#41. Done poorly, Conway's Law will prevent teams from working safely and independently; instead, they will be tightly-coupled together, all waiting on each other for work to be done, with even small changes creating potentially global, catastrophic consequences.

Gene Kim

#42. But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

Leroy Chiao