on how you make people feel
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Carl W. Buechner
Ram Charan on choosing people to work with
“Real leaders, I have found, exhibit an enthusiasm for selecting people who are better than they are.”
- Ram Charan
Colin Powell on how to accomplish great deeds
“Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
- Colin Powell
How to motivate people to solve problems
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
- Paul Hawken
Robert Fulghum on teamwork
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
- Robert Fulghum
Why conflict is important to teams
Conflict is inevitable in a team … in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.
- Susan Gerke, IBM, Leadership Development
Benjamin Franklin on why we must work together
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants said…
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Andrew Carnegie on teamwork
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizationa lobjectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
Vince Lombardi on the importance of teamwork
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
- Vince Lombardi