Patrick Lencioni Quotes

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

No team works out teamwork.

The coach will decide the best for the team, but in practice, I will try to make an effort for the good of the group above all.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

I'm proud that I've been able to attract an incredible team to work with me.

The important thing is to build a good team, a good block and get results from there.

Showrunning is not a one-man job; it's literally impossible to do for one person. I have learned the hard way now from two seasons, one with Red Widow, and this, I can't control everything. I certainly have tried, but having an incredibly strong team around you, surrounding yourself with incredibly talented people, that is the trick, and I certainly had that for the first season here of Jessica Jones.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

I know that nobody can become a star without a team.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.