Team Leader Quotes

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

You don't need a team leader, you need quality.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

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.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

One man cannot make a team.

I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.

[Jack Nash] was very different than anything I'd played. In fact, there's a scene I have in a tent with Louis Ferreira, who just did an episode of Travelers. He was in the fourth episode of Travelers playing another team leader, and we really have it out, not unlike the way we did in the tent in Andromeda.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

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.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

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.

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.