Syd Quotes

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

I love collaborating with people.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

No team works out teamwork.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.

I love collaborating with different people.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.

I've never really been too fussed about the kind of teammate I have.

I hate when people talk about certain guys and say they can't work together.

Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.