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• Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teammate, Groups, Peers

  "Five Warning Signs Your Startup Team Is Going To Kill Each Other" by Martin Zwilling, www.businessinsider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players in the team because the fit players also start becoming lazy seeing their routine. Having teamwork capabilities is also very important as there comes a lot of times where you have to think beyond your own interest to upkeep the national interest.

  Shahid Afridi

  Believe, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.vogueamour.com

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• Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.

  P. K. Subban

  Sports, Player, Dedication

  Source: www.automobilenews.net

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• I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill of the players are better, the strength, the overall athleticism, the teamwork involved. I think coaching is better. We have more exposure for our game than ever. You know, our sport has grown significantly in really the last five years. It's pretty amazing.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat that you can't help the other chefs.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Helping, Chef

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Life is full of cycles that have a way of perpetuating themselves. Success and failure both feed on themselves. Things can go downhill quickly, with people bogged down by ineffective behavior and poor teamwork, unless leaders intervene to shift the cycle.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Leader, Success And Failure

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Of course, there's some you think, well I wouldn't let them in the door, but there's not many. It's very important to know that it's a mutual thing, that there is respect and a form of teamwork. With quite a few of them it can be traumatic, but there are moments in here when they do extraordinary things with their designs. There are things of beauty I get to see in this office.

  Louise Wilson

  Thinking, Doors, Office

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• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

  Fred Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspiring, Motivation, Sprung Up

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• In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

  Robert Heller

  Motivation, Inspiration, Hands

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• We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Progress And Change, Creating, Later In Life

  "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

  John Katzenbach

  Challenges, Team Building, Team Work

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• Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

  Dean Smith

  Sports, Play, Team Building

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• The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

  John Katzenbach

  Support, Team Building, Team Work

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• An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

  Robert Benchley

  Games, Preparation, Matter

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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

  John Katzenbach

  Real, Hard Work, Risk

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• Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

  John Katzenbach

  Fun, Educational, Real

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• Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Skills, Unity

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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Discovery, Mind, Collaboration

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• My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

  Meredith Brooks

  Self, Goal, Empowerment

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• The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

  Sam Walton

  Senior, Jobs, Management

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• Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Deals, Wells

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• Cultivate those who can teach you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teach

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• I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

  Summer Glau

  Independent, Knowing, Directors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Kids, Winning

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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