Team Diversity Quotes

In Boston, the year we won the championship, guys were so much different in age. You don't have the same lives off the court.

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

I'm only 27 but still I've had a lot of experience just playing with different teams, different coaches, different players.

I firmly believe in the old adage 'Actions speak louder than words.' This means proactively seeking women for roles within boards, identifying opportunities for diversity within teams, and finding ways to use your platform to mentor women - and then encourage them to do the same.

There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.

At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

I feel like you always learn different things from different teams.

Ancelotti showed in the past, that he can work with different teams and different players.

It has been a useful experience to play for several different teams and move around.

My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Some of the guys in the Eastern Conference, I had never been on their teams - like Larry Bird: even though you make the All Star team, you're going to be in the West; he's on the East. So you're never going to be teammates.

I like geography. I think I know every country in the world. If someone from another country plays for my team, I will know where he is from.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.

Attracting the next generation of IoT talent will take more than money - it's just as important to nurture a team-based culture of diversity and openness in which every voice is valued. This not only appeals to younger workers but also aligns with IoT's network character.

One of the great things about the SEAL teams in particular, and the American military in general, is the tremendous diversity of backgrounds and experience that people bring to their service.

In every team I have played with, and of all of the attackers I have played with, each one was different.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.