Quotes about collaboration

Dialogue isn’t a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

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

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

I have always believed in the power of collaboration. Early on in my professional career, I realized that you can't develop all the competencies you need fast enough on your own. Furthermore, if you don't collaborate, your ideas will be limited to your own abilities. As a result, you will not be able to serve your clientele and thus can't achieve the anticipated impact.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

Collaboration is about “team work.” It’s not a cliché, it’s a practical reality.

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that light - a greater depth of understanding about life and truth.

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. " There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat,"he said."Thats crazy, Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say ' Wow, and soon your cooking up all sorts of ideas." So he had the Pixar building planne

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

You cannot trust a person who only has new friends.

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.

Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what’s best for the project.

I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope—and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing—that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that…' It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what y

This world isn't a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of other people and that day you will be wiser. You will know how connected we all are. Either we all make it or none of us does.

Collaborations are the black holes of knowledge regimes. They willingly produce nothingness, opulence and ill behavior. And it is their very vacuity that is their strength...It does not entail the transmission of something from those who have to those who do not, but rather the setting in motion of a chain of unforeseen accesses.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

Don’t look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.

When people don't know what’s going on, it’s human nature for them to imagine a version that’s ten times worse than the truth!

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.

When your heart is right, you want to bring out the best in others.

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

If You Respect Their Preparation,You never Drop the Baton

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to come out of the boundaries of limited realities.

There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.

Three-Step Method for Making Stronger Connections: Take the Triangle Talk approach to connecting and reaching agreement with others: You, Me, Us. First refer to their interest, then yours - and then note how your interests coincide. This approach enables diverse people to gain traction sooner toward a common goal.

Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.

A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets

For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment.

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the United States – and that the entire international space partnership is much better because of it.

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.

We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

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. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the s

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

Never expect others to be like you, it can be the biggest nightmare!!! Collaboration and synchronization needs to be found in the difference

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

Treat every connection, communication and collaboration as part of a continuous relationship.

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.