Hans Vestberg Quotes

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.

Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

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.

If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room.

I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.

Be not solitary, be not idle

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.