John William McCormack Quotes

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

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.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

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.

Fitting in with teammates has never been an issue for me. It's always something that came very natural.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

I believe you can work with anybody.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

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.

I love to just work with new people in general. It's always really fun.

There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

I love collaborating with different people.

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.