Collaboration Failure Quotes

I have tried for a year to work with the Telangana government.

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.

There's no understandable reason why the financial services industry has not developed a more comprehensive sharing of the value chain.

I would say that if there is one thing we could have done better in the last 10 years under my watch, is when we launched what we called 'the new car.' It is now called the Gen-5. We just didn't get the collaboration we needed to get from the industry, the owners, the drivers, the engineers and car manufacturers.

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

Collaborating on lyrics has never worked for me.

No, Hal Needham without Burt Reynolds has not done well. 'Megaforce' went right in the toilet.

You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.

One way a collaboration can go wrong is if your connection is inauthentic or overly prescriptive.

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 tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that.