Large Teams Quotes

When you are in a big team, there's time when you can stay out.

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

Playing big teams is something I really enjoy - the bigger the team the better.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no opportunity to experience its satisfactions or its possibilities, and who regard cooperative work in large teams as the normal thing. It is a natural corollary for them to feel that the objectives of these large teams must be something of large social significance.