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• Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Strength, Teamwork

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• A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Teamwork, Pride, Self

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• Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.456, Library of America

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• I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

  Paul McCartney

  Teamwork, Real, Optimistic

  "John Rutter: The Art Of The Christmas Carol". Interview with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. December 20, 2008.

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• Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Business, Inspirational Football

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

  Teamwork, Educational, Successful

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• The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

  Bruce Coslet

  Teamwork, Player, Giving

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• Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Dream

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• There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

  George Shinn

  Teamwork, Acceptance, Loss

  George Shinn (1994). “The Miracle of Motivation”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

  Peter Drucker

  Teamwork, Play, People

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.90, Routledge

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• Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• 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

  Teamwork, Educational, Decision

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• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Emotional, Differences

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• A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

  Chuck Page

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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• In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

  Bear Bryant

  Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Player

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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• Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Teamwork, Player

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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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• A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

  Lee Iacocca

  Teamwork, People, Team Building

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.61, Bantam

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• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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• The path to greatness is along with others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teamwork, Greatness, Team Building

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

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• Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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