Groups Quotes - Page 17

• Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Strong, Lying, Successful

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Important, Remember

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Islands, Bridges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Winning, Ideas, Enemy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Optimistic, Opportunity, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Jobs, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Giving, Perfect, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Rewards, Great Work, Results

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.

  Erik Wemple

  Hands, White, Numbers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.

  Darold Treffert

  Art, Math, Skills

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't have autism, but we might do well to narrow our definitions, and our samples, down to groups that are very similar, because I think you're more likely to find the cause.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, People, Autism

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

  Donald Trump

  America, Dreamer, Critics

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• The actual, the forming of ties with a group of people around you where they help you grow as a professional, solve problems, get opportunities, and you help them, is actually the constitutive base of the foundation of a strong, modern career.

  Reid Hoffman

  Strong, Opportunity, Careers

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

  Reid Hoffman

  Believe, Doe, Valleys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Mean, Creating, Care

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative, who has either spent time behind bars or who has acquired a criminal record and thus is part of the under-caste - the group of people who can be legally discriminated against for the rest of their lives. For many African American children, their fathers, and increasingly their mothers, are behind bars. It is very difficult for them to visit. Many people are held hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Support, Needs

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Support, Kind

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• The way that we make dumb decisions and discriminatory decisions is by employing stereotypes about groups of people. We don't see people as fully human when other people speak for them.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Decision, Dumb

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

  Grace Dunham

  Two, Republican, Politician

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Dna, Evil

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Keys

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense - typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. Possession of a tiny amount of crack cocaine, on the other hand, was given a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mother, Jail, Hands

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think I actually did a production of "Under Milkwood," this Welsh play, with my drama group (at school), and I always remember taking everything far too seriously, and that it wasn't just a hobby but something I wanted to keep on doing.

  Felicity Jones

  Drama, School, Thinking

  Source: www.shockya.com

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