John P. Kotter Quotes

I love collaborating with different people.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

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

'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

I hope to see no in-fighting and lots of cooperation. We can either all be part of the problem, or part of the solution, but I think we will all work together well on the same team.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

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 love collaborating with different voices.

In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

I approach any collaboration I do differently.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.