Virtual team development

When team members regard each other with mutual respect, differences are utilized and are considered strengths rather than weaknesses. The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephen Covey

All leaders have the capacity to create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then to translate that vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

We are only as effective as our people's perception of us.

Danny Cox

Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

Tom Bouchard

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

Albert Einstein

Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance.

Unknown

To get a feel for the true essence of leadership, assume everyone who works for you is a volunteer.

Kouzes & Posner

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese proverb

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

Mary D. Poole

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand

Truly great leaders spend as much time collecting and acting upon feedback as they do providing it.

Alexander Lucia

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

Kenyan Proverb

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

Katzenbach & Smith

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.

Unknown

A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do.

Anthony T. Dadovano

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking."

Hugh Downs

Leadership is action, not position.

Donald H. McGannon

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Ken Blanchard

Nobody in your organization will be able to sustain a level of motivation higher than you have as their leader.

Danny Cox

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end and at all costs.

Harold J. Seymour

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

Jerry Junkins

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

Katzenbach & Smith

Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long-term success.

Ned Lautenbach

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

James L. Fisher

Nothing is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

James Kent

Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.

Marvin Weisbord

Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

Fred Smith

The essence of leadership is the willingness to make the tough decisions. Prepared to be lonely.

Colin Powell

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

Henry Ford

Greatness is determined by service.

Dr. Martin Luther King

The path to greatness is along with others.

Baltasar Gracion

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can be and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.

Goethe

Law of Leadership: A successful team with 100 members has 100 leaders.

Lance Secretan

Good leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.

Manual on military leadership

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Chinese proverb

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter F. Drucker

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Unknown

Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

Unknown

Team leader's encouragement = Team's courage to believe.

Dr. Lewis Losoncy

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

John Maxwell

Working together works.

Dr. Rob Gilbert

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Henry Ford

TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More

Unknown

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.

H.E. Luccock

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Lao Tzu

You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go.

Lachlan McLean

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

B. Dodge

If he works for you, you work for him.

Japanese proverb

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

Peter Block

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

Robert Townsend

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations.

Peter M. Senge

A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.

Unknown

Teamwork is working together — even when apart.

Unknown

There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK".

Unknown

The signs of outstanding leadership are found among the followers.

Max DePree

Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

Katzenbach & Smith

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Henry Ford

Leadership is like beauty; it's hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

Warren Bennis

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

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

Katzenbach & Smith

Little value comes out of the belief that people will respond progressively better by treating them progressively worse.

Eric Harvey

The actions of a responsible executive are contagious.

Joe D. Batton

In union there is strength.

Aesop

The motivating team leader is that one person with a dream for the future.

Dr. Losoncy

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.

Harold J. Seymour

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

John Whitmore

The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

Teams share the burden and divide the grief.

Doug Smith

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Peter F. Drucker

If you are truly a leader, you will help others to not just see themselves as they are, but also what they can become.

Unknown

A loyal constituency is won when people ... judge the leader to be capable of solving their problems and meeting their needs.

John Gardner

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Benjamin Franklin

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

D. Eisenhower

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Brecher

Leadership is practices not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold Geneen

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

H. Ross Perot

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

John Maxwell

Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership

Unknown

A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.

Unknown

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Warren Bennis

A small leak can sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Noel Tichy

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max DePree

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first.

Irwin Federman

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best leaders use stories to answer three simple questions: Who am I? Who are we? Where are we going? ... So what's your story?

Noel Tichy

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

R. Meredith Belbin

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Goethe

Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead.

Gerald Faust

Managers cope with change. Leaders cause it and make the competition change.

John Kolter

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Mark Twain

It's very important all the time to tell people to do it themselves.

Paul Fentener van Vlissingen

Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.

Charles S. Lauer

Communicate everything to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Sam Walton

Your very best people will respond to what you actually do, what you evidently measure, and what you openly reward -- every single time.

Betsy Sanders

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

Irwin Federman

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

Max DePree

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

Kenneth Blanchard

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect.

Irwin Federman

When you treat people like adults, 95% act like adults.

Roger Gasaway

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

Unknown

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Leaders must behave the way they wish their followers would behave. Leadership is not a position. It is a combination of something you are (character) and some things you do (competence).

Ken Melrose

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.

Robert Yates

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.

Theodore Hesburgh

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Dr. Allan Fromme

A successful team beats with one heart.

Unknown

Successful leadership requires positive self-regard fused with optimism about a desired outcome.

Warren Bennis

A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.

Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid — and that stops teamwork.

Will Schutz

You can't be a leader if you can't influence others to act.

Dale E. Zand

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Frank C. Ross

Many hands make light work.

John Heywood

Coaching isn't an addition to a leader's job; it's an integral part of it.

George S. Odiorne

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The key element in good business management is emotional attitude. The rest is mechanics.

Harvey Geenan

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.

Lewis B. Ergen

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

Katzenbach & Smith

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Thomas Edison (when asked why he had a team of 21 assistants)

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Anita Roddick

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

Jonh Zenger

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team

Buchholz & Roth

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less “me” and more “we”.

Unknown

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

W. Wilcox

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

Abigail Adams

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Marian Anderson

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

Lead, Follow - or get the hell out of the way

Ted Turner

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

Virginia Burden

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

Max DePree

As a leader, you set the tone for your entire team. If you have a positive attitude, your team will achieve much more.

Colin Powell