192 Quotes About Collaboration

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

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

You cannot trust a person who only has new friends.

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.

Survival' often conjures up images of a violent struggle rather than a helping hand; and fittest often is perceived as winning a competition, rather than being resilient. How about redefining the “survival of the fittest?

Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

A worthy relationship is an agreement that challenges and supports both participants.

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.