Collaboration Quotes

Three-Step Method for Making Stronger Connections: Take the Triangle Talk approach to connecting and reaching agreement with others: You, Me, Us. First refer to their interest, then yours - and then note how your interests coincide. This approach enables diverse people to gain traction sooner toward a common goal.

There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.

Erica Bauermeister

Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.

We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

Parker J. Palmer

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.

Treat every connection, communication and collaboration as part of a continuous relationship.

Kim Chandler McDonald

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Never expect others to be like you, it can be the biggest nightmare!!! Collaboration and synchronization needs to be found in the difference

Harrish Sairaman

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

Amit Ray

As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets

Jeanette Winterson

A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.

At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.

There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

Amit Ray

A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the United States – and that the entire international space partnership is much better because of it.

Ron Garan

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

Amit Ray

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

Ron Garan

A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

Ron Garan

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no collective thinking.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Five C's of Coaching: 1- Clarity 2- Communication3- Collaboration 4- Commitment 5- Culture

In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

Astronaut Ron Garan

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.

Diet Eman

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

Ron Garan

If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

Ogwo David Emenike

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

Shane Claiborne

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. " There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat,"he said."Thats crazy, Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say ' Wow, and soon your cooking up all sorts of ideas." So he had the Pixar building planned to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations. " If a building doesn't encourage that, you'll lose a lot of innovation and the magic that's sparked by serendipity,"he said.

Walter Isaacson

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another.

Collaboration is about “team work.” It’s not a cliché, it’s a practical reality.

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Amit Ray

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

Shannon L. Alder

When your heart is right, you want to bring out the best in others.

Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.

When people don't know what’s going on, it’s human nature for them to imagine a version that’s ten times worse than the truth!

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Once leaders embrace the role of coach, they realize the weight of leadership is now balanced between themselves and their direct reports.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

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