Warren Bennis Quotes

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

When you build a team, and you have 24 or 25 players, all can be decisive; can be important.

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

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

I've been on some really good teams.

Popovich is always talking about team.

What matters is getting the best out of the squad you have.

Stars don't necessarily make a good team and that is what we must learn.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

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.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.

Have a vision. Communicate it clearly. Pick the right people and put them in the right jobs.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

A group of amazingly high achievers can be brought together and play together, and all believe that they are competing for something bigger than themselves. Those players are so used to being patted on the back and told how good they are. Frankly, those are usually the hardest people to remind that they are aspiring to achieve something bigger than themselves.

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

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.