Jodi Picoult Quotes

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

Collaboration is really important.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

There are lots of ways to work together.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

People must work in unison.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I like being part of a team.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

Without team-mates, it's difficult to play well.