The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
— Phil Jackson
Instructive Team Collaboration quotations
A team is not a group of people that work together.
A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.
Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.
Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
When somebody shares, everybody wins.
Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Life is too precious to be a spectator sport.
We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.
Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.
Let us work together for unity and love.
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
That quality is what makes women great collaborators;
we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.
I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer.
Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan.
I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.
In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.