teams

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.

Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.

Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams.

We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.

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.

Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first.

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

Rugged indiividualism and Rugged groupism. Together they make America strong.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.

Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.