Team Building Quotes

Today, I was thinking how I was working for the big corporate world. I do miss it. Maybe I miss it because I always strived to be #1. Maybe I miss it because I was needed. Maybe I miss it because it was a challenge. Maybe I miss it because I challenged myself. Maybe I miss it because I always worked with a great team. I am just trying to figure out why I miss it so. I am no longer in that crazy corporate world.
I am now home taking care of business. I am providing to you some great team building quotes and empowerment collections that I love. I need to start implementing some of these that I have collected.

TEAM BUILDING QUOTES
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."- Babe Ruth

"Many hands make light work." - John Heywood

"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play."- Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jorday in his freshman year at UNC.

"Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously." - Mark Twain

"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team." - Lewis B. Ergen

"There is no 'i' in TEAMWORK." - unknown

"In cooperative situations, others are depending on you to succeed.In competitive situations, others hope to see you fail."- Unknown

"The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method."- Colin L. Powell

"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."- Goethe

Teamwork makes the dream work.

It is amazing how much people get done if they don't worry about who gets the credit.- Swahili proverb

A team should never practice on a field that is not lined. Your players have to become aware of the field's boundaries. - Former NFL Coach John Madden

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever does." - Margaret Mead

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." - Michael Jordan

"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." - Andrew Carnegie

None of us is as smart as all of us.- Japanese proverb

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together." - Vesta Kelly

"A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a great team." - Author unknown

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."- Henry Ford

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."- Stephen Covey

"Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you." - Paul Meyer

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two." - Lee Iacocca

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”- Peter Drucker

"Individual commitment to a group effort...that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."- Vince Lombardi

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team." - John Wooden

"The one man team is a complete and total myth.”- Don Shula

"One finger cannot lift a pebble."- Hopi Saying

"I've never known anyone so loyal. If you are Larry Bird's teammate, you are one of the most important people in the world to him."- Kevin McHale

"Two heads are better than one."- Unknown

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." - John Wooden

EMPOWERMENT COLLECTION

"What must be abandoned by management is a whole ideology, a whole way of thinking about power. Power no longer belongs in boxes, in titles, in ranks. What counts, for power, is what you do yourself with your own skills." Author James Champy
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Treat people as though they were what they ought to be,and you help them become what they care capable of being.Goethe
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Empowered employees are dramatically enabled, and powerless employees are dramatically disabled. When you put fences around people you get sheep.Unknown
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"As a manager, the important thing is not what happens when you are there but what happens when you are not there." Ken Blanchard and Robert Lorber
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Empowerment is achieved through the equation of
E = A x D x S
where A = Autonomy, D = Direction, and S = Support
Autonomy - handing the ball off and allowing people to run to daylight.
Direction - providing well-defined objectives and setting clear-cut goals
Support - providing resources, training, and validation by continuous recognition
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The 10 Commandments of Empowerment
1. Let go of things others can do.
2. Involve, delegate, and challenge.
3. Share knowledge, information, and skills.
4. Value, trust, and respect each individual.
5. Encourage initiative, ideas, and risk taking.
6. Ensure that people have goals and know how they are performing.
7. Provide support without taking over.
8. Coach to insure success.
9. Reinforce good work and good effort.
10. Model the way - Practice what you preach.
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Empowerment replaces self-interest, dependency, and control with partnership, responsibility, and commitment.
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Empowerment...A Blinding Flash of the Obvious
Empowerment works like a candle. When you share light from a candle by lighting another person's candle, there isn't less light because you have given some away, there is more. That works with empowerment too. When you share power, there isn't any less power because you have given some away, there is more.
Power, like light, is infinite. Power is never used up...it increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. Empowerment begins with the understanding that to empower is not to lose power but to gain power.
Power shared is power gained.
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There was a very young girl Attempting to fly her kite. And as the wind grew stronger and stronger,The child held on with all her might. But instead of letting more string out,She thought holding on was all she could do,And in only just a few seconds,The kite string broke in two.The kid was quite perplexed As a tear ran down her face.The kite was hers no longer As it drifted into space. As I hope this example illustrates,You must consider this to be the truth---Gripping tighter might not be the answer; Sometimes you have to let loose.Whether it's a relationship or your child,There is something you must know---That in order to hold on, Sometime you have to let go. Christopher P. Neck