The Essence
The legendary Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne said it all: “The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.”
Vince Lombardi, no slouch himself at putting together great teams, said: “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Another football great, Joe Paterno, offered this insight: “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”
Henry Ford knew a little about building teams when he said: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
No one wanted to argue with Steve Jobs when he said: “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”