Teamwork Issues Quotes

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

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.

It was an extremely trying time for me. Best was still intimate with MacLeod and the others about the laboratory. I was out of the picture entirely. MacLeod had taken over the whole physiological investigation. Collip had taken over the biochemistry. Professor Graham and Dr. Campbell had taken over the whole clinical aspect of the investigation.

Some teams take a while to jell; some click right away.

I don't particularly like working with girlbands because it's very hard to find a girlband that all get on.

Can't blame the coaching staff for everything. It's mutual, of course. Players mess up, coaches mess up.

Working with other people, it's hard to get them to make it sound like what you have in mind.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

When you see people taking shots who were on the same team and wearing the same jerseys, that's a sign of not having that team camaraderie.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, these month - or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on, and the people doing them don't even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really... Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You're under constant crisis, making a movie.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

In beach volleyball, there are only two of you on the court, so it's so easy for things to go south and take everything personal.

Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.

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.