Jimmy Wales Quotes

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

You don't create a big and strong team easily.

Team chemistry is what really matters, your team chemistry and team toughness.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

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

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

It's difficult to gel players.

Both players and coaches take time to understand each other. Frequent changes bring that rapport to square one.

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

Working together is the quickest road to marital problems.

As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.

Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.

You can't manufacture team spirit; it doesn't come from having a good night out and a laugh.

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

There's no perfect team.

As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

We know - relationships in this sport, it's very hard to have a really great relationship.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.