You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate
Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).
When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.
When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.
I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
This is the World Cup, and you need all the elements in place: a good coach, luck, and a cohesive team unit are fundamental requirements.
To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.
A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.
