Quotes about Teamwork

Good decisions don't so much need consensus as they need commitment.

Following group chat at work is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. It's completely exhausting.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡

Ironically, you'll probably get far more done when only half of your workday overlaps with the rest of your team. Instead of spending the entire day dealing with Urgent!!! emails and disruptive phone calls, you'll have the entire start (or end) of the day to yourself.

The bottom line is that you shouldn't hire people you don't trust, or work for bosses who don't trust you.

Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

Release yourself from the 9am-to-5pm mentality. It might take a bit of time and practice to get the hang of working asynchronously with your team, but soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

Keeping a solid team together for a long time is a key to peak performance. People grow closer and more comfortable with each other, and consequently do even better work. Meanwhile, rookie teams make rookie mistakes.

With a small team, you need people who are going to do work, not delegate work. Everyone's got to be producing. No one can be above the work.

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation 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.