Team And Collaboration Quotes & Sayings

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence. — Mike Schmoker

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers. — Steven Sinofsky

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps — Pearl Zhu

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. — Lance Secretan

Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain. — Jane Ripley

We say submarining is a team sport, but in practice it often amounts to a bunch of individuals, each working in his own shell, rather than a rich collaboration. — L. David Marquet

The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or four hours. The focus was always on the future: What should each product do next? What new things should be developed? Jobs used the meeting to enforce a sense of shared mission at Apple. This served to centralize control, which made the company seem as tightly integrated as a good Apple product, and prevented the struggles between divisions that plagued decentralized companies. — Walter Isaacson

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. — Ray Kurzweil

A strategy is multi-dimensional planning, multi-team collaboration, and multitasking action. — Pearl Zhu

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know. — Jane Ripley

Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams ... Collaboration is key to creativity — Walter Isaacson

Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team — Kare Anderson

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended. — Ron Garan

You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. — Peter R. Scholtes

Having a team of people united by one purpose - to bring Christ to that city - is key for the emotional stability of all decision makers. — J.A. Perez

Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration. — Jim Highsmith

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it. — Ted Sarandos

A lot of the credit, too, should go to Turing, for developing the concept of a universal computer and then being part of a hands-on team at Bletchley Park. How you rank the historic contributions of the others depends partly on the criteria you value. If you are enticed by the romance of lone inventors and care less about who most influenced the progress of the field, you might put Atanasoff and Zuse high. But the main lesson to draw from the birth of computers is that innovation is usually a group effort, involving collaboration between visionaries and engineers, and that creativity comes from drawing on many sources. — Walter Isaacson

Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision. — Bob Rae

The capability of self-organizing teams lies in collaboration. When two engineers scratch out a design on a whiteboard, they are collaborating. When team members meet to brainstorm a design, they are collaborating. When team leaders meet to decide whether a product is ready to ship, they are collaborating. The result of any collaboration can be categorized as a tangible deliverable, a decision, or shared knowledge. — Jim Highsmith

I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful. — Donna Karan

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. — Debbie Allen