Bruce McCulloch Quotes

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

One of the things I did well as a young kid was to link well with the rest of the team, so I reckon it's something which is natural for me.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.