Quotes about Teamwork
GROWING SYNERGY—their effectiveness is greater than the sum of the contributions
— John Maxwell
List the names of the members of your team. Next to each person's name, write a sentence or phrase that describes that person's perspective or outlook. The sentence must be positive, giving the person the benefit of the doubt for how he or she sees the world. If you're having difficulty describing someone's perspective, you need to get to know him or her better so that you can articulate the person's point of view.
— John Maxwell
Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.
— John Maxwell
A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.
— John Maxwell
However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.
— John Maxwell
60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.
— John Maxwell
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
— John Maxwell
If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, and added to by others.
— John Maxwell
But empowering others by giving them your authority has the same effect as sharing information: You haven't lost anything. You have increased the ability of others without decreasing yourself.
— John Maxwell
He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk." If you can't influence others, they won't follow you.
— John Maxwell
Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.
— John Maxwell
Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.
— John Maxwell