Carolyn Porco Quotes

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

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

I'm a teamworker.

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

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

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.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

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.

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.