It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

Just get it down on paper and then we'll see what to do with it.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

You were born not to be just fine

Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.