Thinking Interdependently
Being able to work and learn from others in reciprocal situations. Work together; learn together!
| Everything is connected. No one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken, author and entrepreneur
|
| No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
|
| A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved, pushed and prodded to do better. I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had, they are directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.
-Johnny Unitas, Professional football player during his Hall of Fame induction speech
|
| No man is a failure who has friends.
Henry Travers as Clarence in 'It's a Wonderful Life'
|
| The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
Lisa Fernandez,. softball legend
|
| Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein, author, actor and economist
|
| Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anis Nin
|
| Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.
George Steinbrenner, Owner of the New York Yankees
|
| A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
|
| Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Earvin 'Magic' Johnson
|
| We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O'Connor
|
| Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
|
| Whatever power I exert is collegial.
Katharine Graham, former owner, publisher of The Washington Post
|
| The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.
Chris Osgood, Professional hockey player
|
| You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
|
| It takes a team to do anything of lasting value
John Maxwell
|
| There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
| Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
|
| When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest.
Peter Senge
|
| The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach
|
| When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.
Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline (1990) p 10
|

View Quotes:
- Persisting
- Managing Impulsivity
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Thinking Flexibly
- Thinking About Thinking (Metacognition)
- Striving for Accuracy
- Questioning and Posing Problems
- Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
- Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
- Gathering Data Through All Senses
- Creating, Imagining, Innovating
- Responding with Wonderment and Awe
- Finding Humor
- Taking Responsible Risks
- Thinking Interdependently
- Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
- About the Habits of Mind
- Modelling Habits of Mind
