Teamwork Leadership Quotes

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

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.

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

I want to see a world in which entrepreneurs give time to their visions to reality so that they have more money, more family time, and more support, a world in which they can stop working so hard and start living!

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Building a team is a huge task. This task can’t be delegated to someone else. You’re the leader of your business and you have to behave like a leader for your employees.

If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

Hard work without a solid plan isn’t likely to get you where you want to be. You need to be teachable; you need to be dedicated, and you need to work smart.

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!

A leader can bring the solution to people, but sometimes a leader has to bring the people to the solution.

You are either supporting the vision or supporting division

Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to go backward. They are looking to go forward, toward their prize of realizing their dreams.

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

A boss says “go and make sure you do it”; a leader says “let’s go and make it happen”. Bosses control people; leaders involve them.

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

You don't see the world as it is, you see it,as you are.

Little things make the big things happen

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Sometimes it isn’t just about the people doing the exciting part of things. Sometimes it’s about the people holding things together back home too.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people

You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

When a million minds are one, they understand each other, even in silence.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

Leadership is about guidance and coaching, not about control or authority.

A team hops on one mind, walks on two, sprints on three, and soars on four.

There is no ‘I’ in Team, but there is in achievement.

Telling people what to do is showmanship. Showing people how to do it is leadership.

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork.

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Central to the performance of any team is accountability to the people and to itself, for the course to which the team is responsible.

A pack is greater than a wolf.

I do not know what came first, the brown-nose worker or the arrogant boss; I simple hate it and I not be part of it.

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being

One note does not make a symphony; one artist does not make an orchestra.

When your team member makes a request, take it seriously. Those who make an effort of asking cares about your organisation, those who don't ask don't care.

Even upon the waters of trial and tribulation, by building the ships of kinship, fellowship, leadership and mentorship, we become unsinkable.

Humbleness and enthusiasm are two great qualities for effective leadership. By aligning your 114 chakras, you can unleash your inner fire and inspire your team to achieve greatness.

It's really important for our company to have a culture of healthy leadership and also healthy followership. We don't want to over emphasize leadership because it's not the most important thing. Leadership is important, followership is important, and collaboration is important.

In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.

Having no say in the direction our leader was taking us, was just like in my cowboy days, if a cow got out of the flow of the cattle herd, my horse and I would gently remind him what direction his hoofs should be going. Now I knew how that poor cow must have felt!

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

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.

The team works because of teamwork.

When people feel like they are a part of a team, they are more likely to act in ways that benefit everyone, and less likely to engage in destructive behavior.

People want to feel that you can lead them to victory. And often times that is a measure of competence - people are looking for cues, signs, indications, and proof of your level of competence.

We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is.... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.

My dear Gorgas, Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, Reed Dr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics.

When you listen to people, they feel valued. A 2003 study from Lund University in Sweden finds that “mundane, almost trivial” things like listening and chatting with employees are important aspects of successful leadership, because “people feel more respected, visible and less anonymous, and included in teamwork.”10 And a 2016 paper finds that this form of “respectful inquiry,” where the leader asks open questions and listens attentively to the response, is effective because it heightens the “follower’s” feelings of competence (feeling challenged and experiencing mastery), relatedness (feeling of belonging), and autonomy (feeling in control and having options). Those three factors are sort of the holy trinity of the self-determination theory of human motivation, originally developed by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan.11

That’s what real leadership is: Creating and clarifying the vision (the “what”), and giving that vision greater context and importance (the “why”) for all Whos involved. Once the “what” and “why” have clearly been established, the specified “Who” or “Whos” have all they need to go about executing the “How.” All the leader needs to do at that point is support and encourage the Who(s) through the process.

Teamwork: What did you do today to lend a hand to a colleague? Respect: What did you do today to acknowledge the work of one of your colleagues? Learning: What’s one mistake you made in the last week, and what did you learn from it? Continuous improvement: What have you done in the past week to improve so that you’re better this week than last? Customer focus: What is one change you made in the last week that came from a customer suggestion?