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“Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are overworked, so they have no time and budget for coaching and training. Team members not confident in their roles lose motivation quickly.”

Motivation Loses Roles Team Members Training Entrepreneur Budgets Coaching Expensive Cash Founders Team Member

Author:Martin Zwilling

“Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats.”

Use Team Fronts Emotional Particular Members Threat Rewards Including Checks Recognition Strongest Penalties Peers Feedback Outburst Team Member Emotional Outbursts Berating

Author:Martin Zwilling

“If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.”

Ifs Way Feels Ends Chance Decision Team Members Structure Meetings One Way Discussion Dread Participation Arbitrary Chances Are Wasted Time Team Member Haphazard

Author:Martin Zwilling

“If you have a habit of declaring milestones or changing them based on the crisis of the day, don't expect the team to remain motivated. Similarly, if the team isn't aware of the milestone and the value behind it, they are unlikely to deliver.”

Ifs Values Behinds Team Habit Crisis Motivated Unlikely Declaring Milestone

Author:Martin Zwilling

“Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of your way to make someone's day. Maybe it's time for a party at your house to unwind, or an afternoon off with the team to attend the ball game.”

Way Needs Games House Party Team Balls Entrepreneur Afternoon Anecdotes Unwind Ball Games

Author:Martin Zwilling

“If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.”

Ifs Needs Problem Jobs Next Asks Opportunity Interest Steps Team Industry Habit Members Seeking Employee Annoying Promotion Suggesting Follow Up Team Member Job Opportunities

Author:Martin Zwilling

“Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.”

“Avoid organizing investment team into silos.”

Team Investment

Author:Seth Klarman

“I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.”

Firsts Form Player Team Picks Captains Best Team

Author:Rudolph Straeuli

“While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.”

Moving Team Boundaries Great Things Push Yourself Team Work

Author:Martin Margiela

“Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.”

Two Leadership Leader Team Flavor Containers

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.”

Source: It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership

“Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.”

Ifs Needs Purpose Culture Goal Loses Successful Team Honest Organization Sight Performing Introspection Transparent Introspective Unified Successful Organizations

Author:Colin Powell

“If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.”

Ifs Looks Opportunity Team Inspire Burden Invited

Author:John Novak

“Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.”

Persons Important Fall Strong Journey Team Masters Important Things Champion Get Back Riding Tested Bicycle Stay Strong Curriculum Knocked Down Riding A Bicycle

Book:The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team.”

World Important Done Easy Deals Support Team Surround Negativity Surround Yourself Success And Life

Book:The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Love is the answer for the team's success.”

Answers Love Is Team

Book:The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him.”

“The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.”

Play Sports Attitude Team Baseball Independent Plus Initiative

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.”

Mean Stills Lying Games Forget Party Gone Wife Team Directors Sitting Coaches Managers Owners Athletic Digging Life Means Risking Your Life General Manager

Author:Dan Jenkins

“I've been a solo act, a columnist and worked from home, only relying on myself. Now I'm part of a team, a leader, and I have to fit in at a big corporation and deal with all the moving parts, all the different personalities. That has been a challenge, to be quite honest, that I've embraced.”

Has Beens Different Home Bigs Moving Challenges Deals Leader Team Honest Personality Fit Corporations Solo Columnists Big Corporations Moving Parts

Author:Jason Whitlock

“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.”

Ifs Persons Three Sports Voice Cases Issues Team Media Events Bans Announcing Sporting Events Commissioners

Author:Al Bernstein

“If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.”

“The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?”

“Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.”

Ifs Way Mean Moments Happens Games Winning Team Theory Tools Baseball Things Happen One Way That Moment Being Played Winning Team

Author:Jon Miller

“I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.”

Home Jobs Games Team Fans Cheer Broadcasters Home Team

Author:Curt Gowdy

“I just want the viewer to have a very informative and entertaining listen. I want them to feel like they've pulled up a chair right next to us. I hope to bring to the telecast what I call 'buddy information' - where you hear something and maybe the next day you say to your buddy, 'Hey, I heard something about this player or this team,' and they pass it on by word of mouth.”

Want Feels Next Player Heard Team Information Mouths Hey Chairs Entertaining Viewers Next Day Buddy Informative Word Of Mouth

Author:Tom Verducci

“I love solving problems. It makes me happy to juggle all the jobs I do-figuring out which team is supposed to win on Fox NFL Sunday; reacting off the cuff to Kelly [Ripa, on Live]; and now Good Morning America, trying to fit into that group. The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish.”

“You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.”

Want Helping Eye Able Interest Player Team Fans Conversation Happenings Compare League His Eyes Items

Author:Hubie Brown

“Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.”

People Made Play Home Millions Team Special Made It League Spotlight Christmas Day Lakers

Author:Magic Johnson

“If I wasn't doing SportsCenter, I'd still be on the couch watching my favorite teams play. I have such passion, and I've always tried to keep that passion even in the workplace.”

Ifs Stills Play Passion Team My Favorite Workplace Couches

Author:Linda Cohn

“My best career moments have come being a fan first. Because that's why we love sports, and that's why I got into sports - those highs and lows on that roller coaster ride that I don't want to get off - because I enjoy the highs as much as I enjoy the lows. The highs are even better when you experience the lows, and that can apply when rooting for your favorite sports team or your career. It's also important not to get too high or too low, and it's also important not to listen to the noise. You just have to do it for you in those career moments because they're gonna come.”

Want Firsts Important Moments Sports Enjoy Careers Team Fans Lows Noise Roller Coaster Your Favorite Coasters Sports Team Highs And Lows Favorite Sports Roller Coaster Rides

Author:Linda Cohn

“Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.”

Different States Team Style Essentials Diversity Organization Description Inclusion Interaction Being Different

Author:Bill Crawford

“There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.”

Knows Want Needs Years Different Would Be Today Jobs Results Company Roles Team Position Normal Comfortable Years Ago Humble Evolve New Things Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Sophia Amoruso

“If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.”

Ifs Care Games Loses Player Team Huge Amount Paid Don't Care Owners Irrelevant Good Money

Author:Rashid Latif

“Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.”

Doe Team

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.”

Wells Two Games Winning Team Tough

Author:LeBron James

“Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.”

Ifs Together Team Beats England Scotland

Author:John Prescott

“Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Problem Team Communication Messages Communication Problems

Author:Mike D'Antoni

“Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.”

World Doe Team Football Scotland Lap Disgrace Football Team

Author:Billy Connolly

“I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.”

Ifs Thinking Play Care Boys Practice Team Talent Tough Don't Care I Don't Care Saturday Alabama Football

Author:Bear Bryant

“One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.”

Men Team One Man Eleven Alabama Football

Author:Bear Bryant

“Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.”

Desire Team Members Capable Dependable Team Member

Book:The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

Source: The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

“There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.”

Ifs Has Beens Can Do Player Team Mates Outstanding Team Mate

Author:Paul Scholes

“If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Children Doe Team Pleasant Announcing Lowes

Author:Jon Stewart

“No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.”

People Ifs Want Matter Goal Successful One Thing Team No Matter What Being Successful Surround Surround Yourself Becoming Successful Surround Yourself With People

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.”

Important Millions Team Stupid Months Proud Bed Raises Aids These Days Remembered Stupid Things

Author:Linda Evangelista

“Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.”

Giving Jobs Team Employee Giving In

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.”

Ifs Writing Problem Jobs Asks Team Fundamentals Executives Editing Edits

Author:Jack Dorsey

“It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.”

Ifs Team Upset Footballer Underdog Motivational Football

Author:Woody Hayes

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