“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.” IfsBodyOrderAnimalTeamConditionsMachinesFunctionStructureMechanismLaborers Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.” WorldEnvironmentTeamFrontsFunctionAthleteExpectedMealsGreat Athlete Author:Hope Solo
“You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.” KnowsNeedsMeanStillsPlayRunningYoungLeaderKnow HowPlayerTeamFunction Author:Berti Vogts
“One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.” NeedsProblemMistakeCompanyForeverProgressTeamCreatingFunctionInnovationMirrorsCriticalCoreCrushAddressesVersusBiggest MistakeLarge Companies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.” NeedsTryingDoeProcessCompanyCreativeEnvironmentTeamProjectsFunctionManagementStructureFruitBoundariesSellingMaking MoneyBudgetsIntimateCreative ProcessTranslateInteriorsMarketplaceCreative WorkMilestoneAdministrativeIntervening Author:John Kao
“I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions as well as any team that I've had. And so, you know, there is a part of you that thinks, "Man, we're pretty good at this stuff right now." And you hate to see that talent disperse.” ThinkingKnowsMenWellsHateStuffPresidentTeamTalentRight NowFunction Author:Barack Obama
“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.” ThinkingDoneSeemsJobsLeadershipBusinessResponsibilityLeaderAcceptingTeamTrustAuthorityTasksFunctionCreditTeamworkEffectivenessGreat LeaderPersonal ResponsibilityTeam BuildingInsperationalWorld LeaderBusiness LeadershipTeam WorkBeing A LeaderEffective LeadershipGreat LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersLeadership And ManagementGreat TeamLeadership SkillsTeam WorkingGood LeadershipBuilding A TeamLeadership By Great LeadersGreatest LeadershipInspirational Team BuildingBuilding TrustLeadership TeamworkTeam Work InspirationalGreat TeamworkTeam LeadershipTeamwork And LeadershipTeam CollaborationTeam ManagementGreat Team BuildingGreat Team WorkTeam LeaderTeams Not Working TogetherTeam BondingThere Is No I In TeamResponsibility Of Leadership Book:Managing the Non-Profit Organization Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization
“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.” KnowsWantLittlesScienceEasyStepsTeamProjectsUnderstoodDiscoveryFunctionDeedsCellsSugarMetabolism Author:Luis Federico Leloir
“I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.” InspirationalTryingKidsSchoolMotherNightTeamBasketballNormalDaughterFunctionCoachesMy DaughterSoftballBasketball Team Author:Tim McGraw
“It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.” LongSaidHelpingSpiritStrongDifficultLosesLeadershipForgetLibertyTeamHumilityWeaknessOrganizationFunctionUnityFactorsAccomplishmentSunshineUnitsCompetitorsComplacencyRuthlessPrecisionLulls Author:Samuel J. Tilden