“As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.” PeopleDoePurposeCommunityCommonLeaderVisionEnvironmentWiseTeamProduceSoilGardenerCommon PurposeWise LeadersCommon Vision Author:Diane Dreher
“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.” YearsEndsArtistDifficultWaterExistenceFireGroupsTeamProduceProgramBoundsIncludingPainterMagazinesEncountersOur RelationshipVansConsultingMatchingObstinacy Author:Michel Seuphor
“Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.” PeopleWayHas BeensTogetherIndividualGoalResultsCommonGroupsTeamProduceExtraordinaryLimitationOne TimeTrustedGreat TeamCommon Goal Author:Peter Senge
“Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.” IfsWholeProgressTeamTalentProduceIntelligentBlindIgnorantBehaviourCommitteesNarrow-mindedDuplicate Author:Daniel Dennett
“I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.” ThinkingWayLawWinningNamesPlayerTeamProduceFootballConvictionEnjoyedErasMatesKillersFavouriteAlexHesitationEmbodimentScholesFergusonPaul ScholesTeam MateMidfieldersVolley Author:Bobby Charlton
“Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.” WayTryingI CanRunningTeamProduceBoards Author:Dan Uggla