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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another. -- Yao Ming
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better. -- Tony Dungy
Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success. -- John Kundla
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you. -- John Wooden
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another. -- John C. Maxwell
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague. -- John G. Stumpf
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. -- Patrick Lencioni
Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people. -- Michael Schumacher
Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race. -- Michael Andretti
The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment. -- Maynard Webb
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris. -- Bo Gritz
If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with newer ones. Even if they don't like everything about you, they'll say, 'He's trustworthy, committed to us as a team.' -- Mike Krzyzewski
If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps. -- Martin Zwilling
Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are overworked, so they have no time and budget for coaching and training. Team members not confident in their roles lose motivation quickly. -- Martin Zwilling
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit. -- Martin Zwilling
If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end. -- Martin Zwilling
Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats. -- Martin Zwilling
Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. Teammates are vulnerable with one another; they are confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them. -- Patrick Lencioni
Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization. -- Robert Bales
I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team. -- Nita Ambani
Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing. -- John C. Maxwell
I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. -- S. Truett Cathy
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork. -- William Schutz
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague. -- John G. Stumpf
At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. -- John Mackey
Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos. -- Patrick Lencioni
Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person. -- Tom Kristensen
Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call the Total Health Immersion, where we take them off for a week, and we do intensive diet-and-lifestyle education. -- John Mackey
In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race. -- Liz Halliday
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required. -- Patrick Lencioni
A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue. -- George Kohlrieser
When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds. -- Stacy Allison
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before. -- Leonard Sweet
Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer. -- Tony Fadell
Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy. -- Amit Kalantri
You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster. -- Max Levchin
The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry. -- Akio Toyoda
I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me. -- Ben Silbermann
For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures. -- Tom Rath
I think the teams biggest struggle is remaining a team. It's kinda like a puzzle, If one piece of the puzzle is missing then the puzzle can't be completed. Every team member plays an important part. -- Katie Cassidy
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes. -- Kent Beck
My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man. -- Miguel Cotto
I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined. -- Sara Bareilles
In any endeavor, leaders should inspire members of the team with a passion for success, but within the framework of team effort. One of the most crucial things to realize, feel and remember is that when one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds. -- Stacy Allison
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community. -- John Mackey
But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged. -- Carol D. Leonnig
For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again. -- Akio Toyoda
With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting. -- Ben Feldman
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives. -- Steven Sinofsky
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power. -- Jimmie Johnson
Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team. -- Sarah Sutton
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. -- James F. Amos
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do. -- Joe Torre
As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration. -- Christina Romer
Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each other, and even cry together. -- Tom Rath
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team. -- Don Kardong
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. -- Mia Hamm
I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic. -- David Einhorn
I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack. -- Charlie Kimball
I'm our team's youngest member, but me and Jongup hyung both do maknae things together. -- Zelo
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. -- Phil Jackson
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports. -- Omar N. Bradley
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.. -- Willem de Kooning
I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy. -- Seungri
Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble. -- Stephen Covey
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey. -- Antony Hewish
But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals. -- Randy West
And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. -- Bernard Cornwell
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service. -- David Ogilvy

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