{"id":19028,"date":"2020-03-05T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.customerservicemanager.com\/?p=19028"},"modified":"2020-07-06T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:30:43","slug":"25-team-leadership-quotes-that-inspire-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.customerservicemanager.com\/25-team-leadership-quotes-that-inspire-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Team Leadership Quotes That Inspire Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.customerservicemanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teamworks.jpg\" alt=\"Teamwork quotes\" width=\"598\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.customerservicemanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teamworks.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.customerservicemanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teamworks-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Team leadership is a precious skill. However, teams in organizations are like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They work and make progress. Then, boom, they materialize into a nightmare. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone talks about the importance of \u201cteam\u201d so it has become a worn out clich\u00e9. Together everyone achieves more (T.E.A.M.) is the spoken acronym, and nearly 2\/3 of teams falter and fail.\u00a0Most others fall far short of their intended objectives. You can change that for any team you are a part of or lead if you become a\u00a0student of team-building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25 Quotes About Team Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The number 25 represents wisdom, with diplomacy and curiosity. Also, it suggests unity, cooperation and a unique ability to communicate well with others. Consequently, hopefully, this is true for you and any team you are involved in. Read on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.\u201d Phil Jackson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.\u201d -HE Luccock<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTeamwork makes the dream work.\u201d \u2013 Bang Gae<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.\u201d \u2013 Napoleon Hill<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA leader must inspire or his team will expire.\u201d \u2013 Orrin Woodward<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLeadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.\u201d Max De Pree<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe ratio of We\u2019s to I\u2019s is the best indicator of the development of a team.\u201d -Lewis B Ergen<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTalent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.\u201d -Michael Jordan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGettin\u2019 good players is easy. Gettin\u2019 \u2019em to play together is the hard part.\u201d \u2013 Casey Stengel<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGood teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.\u201d -Ted Sundquist<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.\u201d \u2013 Norman Shidle<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo individual can win a game by himself.\u201d -Pele<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0More Great Quotes About Team Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTogether, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.\u201d \u2013 Becka Schoettle<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much\u201d -Helen Keller<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTeam leadership is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.\u201d -Ifeanyi Onuoha<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don\u2019t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.\u201d \u2013 Rosalynn Carter<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe speed of the boss is the speed of the team.\u201d -Lee Iacocca<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.\u201d Bill Bethel<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGood management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.\u201d \u2013 John Rockefeller<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNone of us is as smart as all of us.\u201d -Ken Blanchard<\/li>\n<li>Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they\u2019re doing it because they care about the team.\u201d \u2014Patric k Lencioni<\/li>\n<li>\u201cComing together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.\u201d -Henry Ford<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTeam-building is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.\u201d \u2014Brian Tracy<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGreat things in business are never done by one person. They\u2019re done by a team of people.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Steve Jobs<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTalent is extremely important. It\u2019s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there\u2019s a\u00a0multiplier\u00a0from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.\u201d Elon Musk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pulling It All Together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe for the project on that one day it was true; you are better than the team. But in most cases effective team leadership produces better, more complete, and more positive results. A team that communicates and works together well offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0More expertise and knowledge than even an exceptionally smart individual<br \/>\ncan.<\/li>\n<li>Perspective from different levels and disciplines of the organization.<\/li>\n<li>Richness of ideas and thinking styles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make no mistake about it; team-building does take more time. But the product of great team leadership far surpasses the contribution of a person working alone. Excellent teams also change the dynamics of the entire organization through the collaborations that develop and the quality of projects delivered. Team leaders that learn to facilitate this kind of effort are golden.<\/p>\n<p>John Buchan, former Governor General of Canada said,\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>The task of team leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.customerservicemanager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rci-creating-a-high-performing-team-1.jpg\" alt=\"Creating a High Performance team\" width=\"77\" height=\"100\" \/>For more tips and techniques on team leadership check out Rick&#8217;s complimentary and fascinating eBook: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/bafc773f00ef\/creatingahighperformanceteam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creating a High Performance Team.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rick Conlow is CEO &amp; Senior Partner of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wcwpartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WCW Partners<\/a>, a performance improvement company. Based in Minneapolis\/St. Paul, Minnesota, WCW works with clients in a variety of industries worldwide to help them excel in sales, service and leadership, facilitating business growth and vitality. Rick is author of Excellence in Management, Excellence in Supervision and Returning to Learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team leadership is a precious skill. However, teams in organizations are like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They work and make progress. Then, boom, they materialize into a nightmare. Everyone talks about the importance of \u201cteam\u201d so it has become a worn out clich\u00e9. 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