“Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.” InspirationMotivationSportsRaceSuccessfulTeamEventsInnovationSoloRunnersBreakthroughSports TeamSprintRelaysRelay Races Author:Nguyen Quyen
“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.” PeopleHas BeensRealHelpingStoriesTermAttentionClassWatchesCuttingTeamEventsPoliticianTaxesFindingsProgramObviousExcusePay AttentionAgendasWarfareDeficitShoutingHysteriaTax CutsClass WarfareTop DownNascar Author:Paul Krugman
“As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.” GivingDoubtTeamEventsPolicyReadyProudMembersBenefitsJudgmentIraqAffectionAdministrationWillingnessTexasForeign PolicyAdviserMisplacedGreat HopeBenefit Of The DoubtLoyalists Author:Scott McClellan
“The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know our country has never been safer from an attack of skeets.” KnowsCountryFunnyEconomyNiceTeamEventsDespiteOur CountryShootingOlympicsMedalLondon Olympics Author:Conan O'Brien
“Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.” TodayFunnyTeamEventsBritishOlympicsSailingLimesLondon Olympics Author:Craig Ferguson
“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.” PeopleMenHumansFactsSpiritIndividualTermCommunityTeamLandEventsTaughtMembersIntellectualEthicsConceptsHistoricalEnterpriseInterpretationInteractionPenetratePremisesEcologicalIntellectual LifeHistorical Events Author:Aldo Leopold
“When you're on your own you have control over most of the variables involved in the preparation and the race itself, whilst in a team event you are only a part of the overall picture. The real upside of being part of a team is the fact that when you're successful in a race you can share the celebrations together.” RealFactsTogetherRaceSuccessfulTeamShareEventsInvolvedPreparationCelebrationVariables Author:Chris Hoy
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.” NeedsLooksGirlCoursesSportsSpaceAttentionAcceptingClassBoysTeachTeamEventsFootballCitizensEqualPrivilegeEqualityTreatedGet BetterTreatmentWomens RightsLightingFootball TeamSecond Class CitizensYearbookEqual Treatment Author:Mariah Nelson
“If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.” IfsPersonsThreeSportsVoiceCasesIssuesTeamMediaEventsBansAnnouncingSporting EventsCommissioners Author:Al Bernstein
“Rather than managing by clarifying events, the creative process may require raising the level of uncertainty. Sometimes this can be done by issuing a creative challenge that has resonance in that it inspires the team to activity.” MaySometimesDoneProcessChallengesLevelsCreativeTeamEventsInspireActivityUncertaintyCreative ProcessResonanceClarifying Author:John Kao