Muhammad Quotes

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

Collaborative decision-making is very poor in crises.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

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.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

For running a country, team work is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork.

If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

No team works out teamwork.

A team is a team.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Settle all things, both great and small, by consultation. Without prior consultation, take no important step.

The chairman of a committee should be in harmony with the majority who constitute it.

In modern societies, all things, even in the military department of affairs, are decided, not by individual effort, but by the combined operations of numbers;

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.