Marshall McLuhan Quotes

When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

The views of several individuals are assuredly preferable to one man, even as the power of a number of men is of course greater than the power of one man.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

In modern societies, all things, even in the military department of affairs, are decided, not by individual effort, but by the combined operations of numbers;

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

Each member of the team must feel important - everyone must make my life and choices difficult.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the day as opposed to standing there while one person flies in and saves the day and you're like, "Good job!" Avengers is really a team effort.

Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

I have a team who I respect immensely, so if they have opinions, I'm interested in hearing them.

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.

UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their levels of conviction based on the completeness of their own knowledge on the subject.