Unified Effort Quotes

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

In winning companies, everybody pulls in the same direction.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

It's usually good news when people call collectively.

I really think the people I run into in the NBA, whether it's the front office side or in coaching, everybody wants to work in an atmosphere where everybody's pulling in the same direction.

When you get everybody going in the right direction you can do some great things, and that's in any business.

Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.

In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and be as well-organized as they are. This does not come natural to us more intellectual types, as we tend to be averse to hierarchy and groupthink; we don't like to be part of anything like a disciplined and well-organized team or movement. But the alternative is to continue losing politically - which means continued failure to protect the world's poor, who are really bearing the brunt of our disorganization.

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

Nobody wins or loses a match; it's the team that wins or loses. You have to be looking to contribute towards the team goal.

There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that

I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

The teams that are successful from ownership to management to coaching - there is a singleness of purpose. There's enough credit for everyone. No one gets territorial. It's just good - and it shows on the field.

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.

Collaborations are incredibly important in design.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.