“I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.” PeopleNeedsImportantDecisionTeamFortunateHelpfulEnd TimesUrgentSpend Time Author:Stephen Covey
“I love the idea of relationships as being the ultimate team - someone you share everything with, who completely and utterly backs you, and whom you give to completely unselfishly. It's easier said than done, but we all need something to aspire to.” NeedsGivingSaidIdeasDoneTeamShareEasierUltimateAspireEasier Said Than Done Author:Matthew Hussey
“At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.” NeedsShouldTeamDesperate Author:Sam Altman
“You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.” PeopleWantNeedsDoneTeamGet It DoneUnstoppable Author:Sam Altman
“If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.” IfsNeedsDecisionTeam Author:Sam Altman
“In almost any change there is 20 - 60 - 20. 20% are doing the change and we need to stay out of their way. 20% will never get there (a large percent still go into banks to see tellers vs. ATMs). 60% are in the middle. I think you will always find some companies where the head of HR is not a member of senior management team (bottom 20% and some companies where she or he has always been (top 20%).” ThinkingWayNeedsStillsCompanyTeamMiddleMembersPercentManagementBottomSeniorAtmSenior Management Author:Dave Ulrich
“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
“If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.” IfsNeedsMightSpiritSportsAttitudeTeamBeatsConcernedTablesChinaTennisComparisonNeed A ChangeSports TeamTeam SpiritTable Tennis Author:Berti Vogts
“You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them.” NeedsWritingHelpingIndividualGoalSimpleFocusTeamWallWake UpStriveCommittedSettingSettingsRugbyTickTeam GoalYour Wall Author:Filo Tiatia
“Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes. You have the superstars and the fast guys who score the tries, but you also need the workhorses and the people who play all the other roles. Unless they all work together as a team then it's really going to affect the performance. Everyone's got to rely on everyone else.” PeopleNeedsTryingPlayTogetherGuyGamesRolesTeamShapesPerformancesSizeRelyScoreWorking TogetherRugbySuperstar Author:Warren Gatland
“Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.” NeedsGivingValuesInterestViewsSupportDoubtTeamListeningBehaviorAchievementBenefitsEducationalPoint Of ViewTeamworkProvidingRecognizingTeam BuildingRespondingTeam WorkTeamwTeam WorkingBenefit Of The DoubtTeamwork In Education Author:John Katzenbach
“The problem is the policy makers don't have practitioners in the policy team. You won't make an IT policy without consulting a Narayan Murthy or Nandan Nilekani. But for energy, people think they know everything and they know what to do for it. That's how the policies are created in Delhi and that needs to change.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsProblemEnergyTeamPolicyMakersNeed A ChangeConsultingDelhiPolicy Makers Author:Ramon Magsaysay
“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).” IfsWayNeedsWould BeIndividualDifficultResultsCareersTeamAchieveBuildingDevelopmentEgoDirectRecognitionEtcAgendasDivisionHierarchyTeam BuildingAlignmentCareer DevelopmentOrganizationalConfidentiality Author:Patrick Lencioni
“One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correctly determine who on your team needs that piece of information to do their job.” NeedsJobsSimplePiecesTeamInformationDetermineManagers Author:Rands
“I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.” NeedsSupportWonderfulTeamCollaborationCollaborating Author:Donna Karan
“If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.” IfsNeedsRunningChanceTeamTypeAbsurdFind MeChances ArePastime Author:Robert Towne
“Filmmaking and television series are team sports. Look for the best team for you. Plan, budget your time, money and spirit. You need all three to get serious work done. Never say no because something scares you. Never say yes because you're flattered. Stay open, but stay proud. It never gets easy. Get over that part. Get on with it.” NeedsLooksDoneSpiritThreeEasySportsPlansTeamTelevisionSeriousProudSeriesBudgetsScareFilmmakingGet OverWork DoneFlatteredBest TeamSports TeamSerious Work Author:Karen Walton
“You can rely on your team to do their jobs, but you have to carry the torch and do anything you need to, not just to shoot and finish, but to get the film seen. You have to know within yourself that you're going to have to take this. Don't sit back and think other people in your team are going to make it happen now because you've done your part. You have to carry that torch, and no one is going to care as much as you do, and nobody is going to live with it as long as you are because it's your film.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsLongDoneHappensCareJobsFilmTeamRelyMake It HappenTorches Author:Storm Saulter
“You don't need a team leader, you need quality.” NeedsQualityLeaderTeamTeam Leader Author:Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.” IfsNeedsBelieveLeaderTeamDon't BelieveCome UpComplainingTeam Leader Author:Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.” WorldWantNeedsShouldSelfProblemTogetherIndividualUnderstandingImaginationBusinessImpossibleTeamValuableAccomplishedAssetsSplendidSelf EducationAlphasAlpha And OmegaBusiness Problems Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.” WantNeedsRealPlayUseGuyGamesWinningTeamFootballSkillsWork OutVideoNerdLoadedBarcelonaPlaying FootballMadridReal MadridFifaPlaying Video Games Author:Giovani Bernard
“We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.” NeedsGamesWinningTeamPeriodsPreparationGame Over Author:Jim Leyland
“You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.” KnowsNeedsPlayHandsBigsJobsGamesBehindsTeamFansTunesBooing Author:David Beckham
“I've always had a sense of responsibility, whether I've been captain or not. But I must say that I'm both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that's score goals and help my team win.” KnowsNeedsMeanStillsHelpingJobsYoungWinningGoalResponsibilityTeamProudDespiteScoreCaptainsPortugalSense Of Responsibility Author:Cristiano Ronaldo
“We're focusing on what we need to do. The only attention we're thinking about is giving each other the attention that we need as a team, and making sure that everyone in here knows how they important they are to our success.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsGivingImportantAttentionKnow HowTeam Author:Dwyane Wade
“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
“For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.” NeedsFirstsLooksTwoCoursesGamesLossPlayerTeamGainsImpactCrucialYardsOpposingQuarterbackSacking Author:Simeon Rice
“There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects” NeedsStillsGovernmentActionIndividualTeamEffectsRecognitionLag Author:Milton Friedman
“We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far” WayNeedsRealGroupsTeam Author:Francesco Totti
“The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.” WorldNeedsWellsDoeHas BeensWinningWishTeamCupsIndianWorld CupBest WishesGanguly Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.” KnowsNeedsFeelsPlayRunningGamesPracticeStudyTeamShapesConsciousBonesUnconsciousGetting In Shape Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit.” NeedsGivingFeelsWellsLosesSupportTeamKeysMembersTasksOppositesDetailsCommunicateCreditManageTrustedFoundersDelegatesTeam MemberMicromanaging Author:Martin Zwilling
“Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.” NeedsFeelsMindLeaderWrittenHeardTeamHabitBasesPrioritiesGuidanceShoutingContributing 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.” WayNeedsGamesHousePartyTeamBallsEntrepreneurAfternoonAnecdotesUnwindBall 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.” IfsNeedsProblemJobsNextAsksOpportunityInterestStepsTeamIndustryHabitMembersSeekingEmployeeAnnoyingPromotionSuggestingFollow UpTeam MemberJob Opportunities Author:Martin Zwilling
“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.” IfsNeedsPurposeCultureGoalLosesSuccessfulTeamHonestOrganizationSightPerformingIntrospectionTransparentIntrospectiveUnifiedSuccessful Organizations Author:Colin Powell
“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.” IfsWayWantNeedsPersonsHelpingValuesProcessGoalLove IsFocusOne ThingTeamShiningBest WayUrgesTake TimeLove SomeoneWant HimWhen You Love SomeoneBringing Out The BestLove Takes Time Author:Jon Gordon
“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.” KnowsWantNeedsYearsDifferentWould BeTodayJobsResultsCompanyRolesTeamPositionNormalComfortableYears AgoHumbleEvolveNew ThingsLearning NewLearning New Things Author:Sophia Amoruso
“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.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsProblemTeamCommunicationMessagesCommunication Problems Author:Mike D'Antoni
“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.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsChildrenDoeTeamPleasantAnnouncingLowes Author:Jon Stewart
“Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.” ThinkingNeedsGamesWorryTeam Author:Emmitt Smith
“We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'” ThinkingMenNeedsLittlesSometimesRunningFightingSportsTeamDogHavensFootballCoupleGermanyFriendlyBenchesFootballer Author:Otto Rehhagel
“We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews. But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.” MenNeedsBigsUnderstandingAcceptingRolesLaughingKnowingTeamQuietBandMake SenseInterviewsDiverse Author:Robbie Merrill
“To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.” NeedsPlayerTeamHarmonyCoachesPullingOne Direction Author:Jerry West
“I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsWinningNiceTeamRight NowRetiredNice ThingsBarcelonaArgentina Author:Lionel Messi
“It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.” IfsWantNeedsYearsLittlesEndsMatterLastsYoungNextTeamTalentAverageAthleteCoachesHungryManagersContractsUnfortunateNext YearStarting OverWhiningFalconForethoughtGeneral ManagerBlowhards Author:Jeff Schultz
“Some teams have a nucleus to build around. The Falcons barely have an embryo. So if you see suspicious looking wires running from the locker room to Dimitroff's office, and the general manager pushes down on the plunger as early as today, don't feel the need to cover your eyes. You've already seen the worst.” IfsNeedsFeelsEyeRunningTodayRoomsTeamWorstOfficeManagersOver YouWireSuspiciousLockersLocker RoomEmbryosNucleusFalconGeneral Manager Author:Jeff Schultz
“Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWellsAttentionStudyTeamGood Team Author:Kamerion Wimbley