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“Feel better, work better.”

“The Executive Leadership Assessment (results) quickly devolved into arguments about the ways in which Disney management did or did not function as a team, which pretty much proved the consultant’s point: that Disney’s top-tier executives, under Michael Eisner’s governance, does not make a good team; They don’t qualify as "a team," much less a group. Later, Eisner dismissed the whole experiment as a waste of time. Away from Eisner, several of the participants later conceded the issue. ‘What Michael likes is to put six pit bulls together and see which five die,’ one said.”

“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”

“We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.”

“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.”

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

“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.”

“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.”

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.”

“Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.”

“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”

“People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”