Glenn Turner Quotes

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

I think there are always growing pains with teams.

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

Each transfer brings a change to the dressing room that I must protect - that is my job.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

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.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.

When you have too many stars, you have too many egos to manage, and it's difficult.

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

I've worked with so many teams, so many dressing rooms.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.