Stephen Covey Quotes About Team

Quotes about: Team

• How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Humble

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

• Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, People, Effort

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.57, Mango Media Inc.

• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Team

• The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Emotional, Differences

• Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Winning, Self

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

• Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Winning, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

  Stephen Covey

  Sports, Team, Office

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Team, Organization

• Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Masters, Be Good

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

• I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, People, Decision

  Source: zenhabits.net

• 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

  Team, Leader, Weakness

  Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

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