John C. Maxwell Quotes About Team
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A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.
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To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.
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Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.
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Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
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Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.
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If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.
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To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
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Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.
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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
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Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.
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The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.
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When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.”
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Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.
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In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.
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When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.
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The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?
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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.
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Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.
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Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.
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Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.
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I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."
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Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.
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Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.
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If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.
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Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.
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No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.
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Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.
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A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.
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Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.
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It takes a team to do anything of lasting value
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