Frank Rijkaard Quotes

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

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.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

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 enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

Employees don't need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding.

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.

I have great respect for all my colleagues.

At the end of the day, you do this job because you really like working with your team and like the chance to compete as an organization.

I become friendly with people I work with.

How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.