Srikumar Rao Quotes

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

I think Tesla doesn't sound like it has a very collaborative culture.

A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that's not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition.

The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.

I've worked on shows where the actors don't talk to each other, and if they want to talk to each other, they talk through the director. What kind of existence is this? If I have to spend 14 hours a day with somebody, we're in a relationship. We'd better talk it out.

Some of my colleagues I have the most differences with in decisions are ones with whom I have a very friendly relationship. You have to be able to step back and look at the issues and your colleagues.

I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with.

I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

I think I'd probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don't handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it's all about me.

A film unit is like a family, you not just work together but laugh, cry and fight also.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

Working with one's boss is a totally different dynamic than working with a peer, especially when doing live or live-to-tape commentary of a genre as unique as sports-entertainment.

There are emotional relationships in any business.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I get along just fine with Woodley. He's actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I've worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There's no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.

For a company the size of ECW, there wasn't room for multiple over-the-top personalities.

People think, 'Well, because you're at Google, you can work from anywhere.' Yes, you can work from anywhere, but many just commute to offices... Working from the office is really important.