Quotes about Cohesion

There was no sense of unity or camaraderie on the team, which translated into a muted level of commitment.

As difficult as it is to build a cohesive team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical

Truth lies at the heart of a functioning, cohesive team. Without it, teamwork is all but impossible

Another way to understand this model is to take the opposite approach—a positive one—and imagine how members of truly cohesive teams behave: They trust one another. They engage in unfiltered conflict around ideas. They commit to decisions and plans of action. They hold one another accountable for delivering against those plans. They focus on the achievement of collective results.

The essence of a cohesive leadership team is trust, which is marked by an absence of politics, unnecessary anxiety, and wasted energy. Every executive wants to achieve this, but few are able to do so because they fail to understand the roots of these problems, the most damaging of which is politics.

cohesive teams fight. But they fight about issues, not personalities. Most important, when they are done fighting, they have an amazing capacity to move on to the next issue, with no residual feelings.

Once a leadership team has become cohesive and worked to establish clarity and alignment around the answers to the six critical questions, then, and only then, can they effectively move on to the next step: communicating those answers. Or better yet, overcommunicating those answers—over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare.

the strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link.