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|The Bhutan folktale "The Four Harmonious Friends" symbolizes interdependence, an epitome of friendship, cooperation, and good relations without considering hierarchy, strength, power or size. In the story, Elephant, Monkey, Rabbit, and Bird collaborate to plant a tree, protect it, and harvest the fruits. It is said that wherever a picture of the Four Harmonious Friends is displayed, the ten Buddhist virtues will increase, the minds of all will become harmonious, and many auspicious events will occur.
|Bhutan Folktale<br />[[File:4HarmoniousFriends.jpg|thumbnail|The Four Harmonious Friends]]
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|"Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part."
|"I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating."
|John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
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|"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."
|William B. Given, Jr.
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|“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” |Idowu Koyenikan|----|“He who masters the power formed by a group of people working together has within his grasp one of the greatest powers known to man.” |Idowu Koyenikan|----|“You are either supporting the vision or supporting division” |Saji Ijiyemi|----| “It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.” | Lailah Gifty Akita|----|“Players focus on the wins and the loses. Builders focus on the team and future of the vision. Let's move our members from team player to team builder.” |Janna Cachola|----|“Everyone you work with, in order to achieve a goal, must have something to lose if it is not realised and something to gain if it is realised. These are the people that are going to stick around you through thick and thin until the job is done.” |Saidi Mdala|----|“It takes both complementary actions and competitive actions in a constructive and professional way to build trust in teams.” |Pearl Zhu|----|“You think it's dumb when someone says there's no 'I' in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.” |Brendan Kiely|----|“Everyone around us, however nice and likable, will be unreasonable at one point or another. Everyone has an upside and a downside. If you want the most out of your relationships with others, manage the downside and nurture the upside.” |Saidi Mdala|----|“Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence.” |Salil Jha|----|“If you focus on the strength of the team, you will begin to find work as a positive challenge.” |Salil Jha|----|“A leaders job is to ELEVATE the team, not delegate the team. Elevate your team to take initiative because real leadership is when you can create a culture of self-leadership within your team” |Janna Cachola|----| “Learn to allow your team leaders to shine while you reign. All that matters in the end is the result, nobody cares about attention without financial benefits.” | Olawale Daniel| ---|“Systems and rules are guidelines, leadership is lifeline.” |Janna Cachola|----|“Great results occur when great responsibility is given. Your job as a leader is to give responsibility NOT take responsibility.” |Janna Cachola|----|“Steps taken together take us Far” |Aniket S Sharma|----|“Each of us must make it our priority and personal responsibility to stay in harmony with our fellowman. Harmony is not just about creating a pleasant environment; it produces synergy. The best way to explain synergy is to say that a hand is much more effective than five fingers working independently. I tested this theory one day using dumbbells. I wanted to determine the maximum number of pounds each of my fingers could lift independently. Two pounds was the limit. I then tested my capability with my fingers working together. I rationalized that five fingers times two pounds each should yield a maximum of ten pounds. Not so. I lifted thirty-five pounds!” |Deborah Smith Pegues|----|“Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.” |T Jay Taylor|----|“When you switch your focus from the “we” to the “me”, the goal from “team” to “self”, you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.” |Carlos Wallace|----|“Social context trumps reason and social context drives your behaviors with an influence akin to an invisible force. We naturally adapt our behaviors to the context.” |Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.|----|“Telling your team what to do is showmanship. Showing people how to do it is leadership. Leading for the purpose of visual effect will not accomplish the vision.” | Janna Cachola|----|“Leaders #1 job is to help their people, teams, leadership, and culture, to be #FutureFit...by supporting People, Planet & Profits, in a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace... today.” |Tony Dovale|----|“It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!” |Dan Jacobs|----|“Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.” |Israelmore Ayivor|----|“Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.” |Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.|----|“People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental. Without every member feeling deeply that he or she belongs to that group there is no team.” |Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.|----|“Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.” |Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.|----|“Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.” |Carlos Wallace|----|“As humans, we unconsciously embrace the group’s beliefs and behaviors without questioning them or surrender to their opinions.” |Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.|----|“Using names with respect and consideration tells a person that you care, are present and engaged, and that you are genuinely interested in making a connection. You make them feel remembered!” |Susan C. Young|----|“No matter what role you play in a meeting, how you show up in that role is critical to the meeting’s success.” |Emily M. Axelrod|----|“Number does not necessarily guarantee performance. For I have seen a team of 8 outperform a team of 80.” |Awolumate Samuel|----|“Every entrepreneur's first responsibility after identifying his or her product, is their People, you can have a fantastic product, but without the right team implementing your vision into reality, all you have is a product, not a business, and certainly not a company.” |Mofoluke Ayoola|----|“The main reason why great leaders are rare is because books on leadership far outsell those on followership.” |Mokokoma Mokhonoana|----|“The more we are able to engage in enthusiastic disagreement with each other, the more we will be able to uncover the best in ourselves and each other.” |Karen Kimsey-House|----|“Linked together as a team with one goal, we soon realized we were only as strong as our weakest link. But did we condemn the weakermember? That wouldn’t serve any purpose. Instead, the stronger guys responded by carrying more weight than the weaker teammate. Encouragement was key in reaching the top of the stadium, standing as one.Sometimes one person on your team may not be as strong as another. Strengths usually differ. Likewise, in an encounter with another, someone may have a different set of beliefs or ideas.To accomplish any goal, embracing the strengths and weaknesses of each member and compensating where necessary are the best ways to make it to the top.” |Jake Byrne|----|“As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.” |Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster|----|“There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team.” |Michael Joling|----|“Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.” |Jane Ripley|----|“Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment.” |Lailah Gifty Akita|----|“Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity” |Sunday Adelaja|----|“It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.” |Lailah Gifty Akita|----|“Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas” |Tony Dovale|----|“Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.” |Dr. Thomas Gordon|----|“We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation” |Tony Dovale|----|Add Quote Here|Add Author's Name|----|Add Quote Here|Add Author's Name|----|Add Quote Here|Add Author's Name|----|Add Quote Here|Add Author's Name|----|Add Quote Here|Add Author's Name|----|Add Quote Here|Add Author's Name|---- Please add quotes you've been inspired by! Just Login and then click "Edit" on the top of the this page.