Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can create change. In other words, shifting your focus onto the team - or the ship as a whole, not just yourself - will have meaningful impact.
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Related If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are ... NABIL N. JAMAL The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are ... NABIL N. JAMAL Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the... IDOWU KOYENIKAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ... C. JOYBELL C. Pakistan have got some good players all round. I think if we focus on just one or two players in the... RAHUL DRAVID I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I do tend to gravitate toward what guiding light we have. . . . If I read something that's got those... LIAM NEESON We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER They are relying on individual stars, while we rely on the team as a whole. COSMIN OLAROIU I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created ... DAVID HANSON Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we ca... BARACK OBAMA We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We c... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Only when we begin to reconcile the revolutionary truth will we start to grow not as an individual o... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. If you want something you have to go get it yourself or create it. That's all I'm doing this year. C... NERISSA IRVING Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is be... SUSAN FORWARD Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might re... C. JOYBELL C. " there comes a time in life when you start to seperate yourself from other people, because you thin... OMAR TAHIR What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the cha... HARRI HOLKERI Thankfully, the only thing we need to create a happy life is a willing mind. We all have a mind but ... AVINA CELESTE The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. Like... RICHARD DAWKINS In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bu... NARENDRA MODI The Big Blue ship is leaking and creaking, and the new skipper says there's no need to change, ... J... BOB DJURDJEVIC Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL You can start out hot, you can start out lukewarm or you can start out cold. If you're a good team, ... GARY SHEFFIELD We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are shifting resources. We are not at full capacity. We continue to talk to our customers. We wil... BUD GREBEY Ellicott played hard and we are pleased with our team's progress. We are not a well oiled offensive ... JASON TICE As other factors are implemented it will start to have an impact in overall employment. CHRISTA CARONE Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is bett... FERNANDO TORRES Chelsea are not unbeatable. We have beaten them before and we can beat them again. They are a better... RAFAEL BENITEZ Communicating to others WHAT YOU WANT will enable you to start ‘BUILDING YOUR TEAM’ to accomplis... SHAY DAWKINS There are some initial studies that have shown some changes in the behavior of the dolphins. We're v... CHRIS YATES I think we will be an underdog every game this season until we prove differently. We will take that ... BRIAN KELLY A conservative knows that there are limits to what we can change, that there are some things that go... STOCKWELL DAY We made a 100% decision not to go. We will still play club and provincial cricket in Zimbabwe, but w... BLESSING MAHWIRE When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi... T.S. ELIOT Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the... SUZY KASSEM Instead of focusing on problems try focusing on solutions instead. We will always..always...have pro... AKIROQ BROST We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people ar... ALBERT ELLIS The language of worldview tends to imply, to paraphrase the Catholic writer Richard Rohr, that we ca... ANDY CROUCH It's time to start thinking of parents and families as community builders and not just as service re... DEBBIE OLIVER The language of worldview tends to imply...that we can think ourselves into new ways of behaving. Bu... ANDY CROUCH Positive affirmations are powerful, but they can be overrun by complaining and negativity if you all... GUDJON BERGMANN The gist is to call for centralization and eliminate all the silos, ... We have to come up with a fi... KAREN BASS Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been... BARACK OBAMA Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE What we have seen in the trends today is that folks under the age of 30 -- most of them are actually... ANDY LIU There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are jus... HENRY J. EYRING Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the... BARACK OBAMA The team goes as he goes, but not just by his performance. His enthusiasm and excitement are what ge... GREG VALASKEY We moved the ball, we just imploded when we got around the end zone. When they play as a group, they... PAUL KENNY Solidarity, had to be meaningful and not just a word.
Malta would keep insisting that it should be h... JOSEPH MUSCAT Our primary goal is to improve individual performances as the season progresses. Of course, just lik... CLINT LAWHORNE Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've ... BARACK OBAMA They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all... BEN WALLACE We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth,... KILROY J. OLDSTER We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not t... CASSANDRA CLARE While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impa... MARK HYMAN In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th... JOSEPH CAMPBELL We just got some different personnel in. Those guys are filling the shoes of guys who left (the team... DERRICK GIBSON Now we will be able to focus more of our attention on our side impact test program and our rear impa... ADRIAN LUND We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The most promising thing that I see overall is the commitment our players have made to each other an... JULIE BARBER We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by techn... HOWARD SCHULTZ The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we bel... ROMéO DALLAIRE We're seeing alumni putting money back into the houses because vandalism is down. We are seeing a re... CLARKE STROUD We are not going in like we have in the past, to get in the top 10 in the team standings. We are goi... BRAD PENRITH If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that ... YEHUDA BERG We surmise that people just become more task-oriented and set in their ways. They focus on getting t... WAYNE NEMEROFF Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate we... CHARLES KOCH When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well. MARINELA REKA We're a top-three team (in our league), and we're a playoff-caliber team for sure. It just depends o... BOB MACAULEY We are starting from the scratch . In fact the wireless (phenomenon) will have bigger impact in Indi... CHARLES GIANCARLO These are trends we see continue in the market with the shift to lower-priced machines; the higher-p... JEFFREY HEWITT They are acting more like a team. Before, it was just about individual events and getting good times... JOSH FLOETKE Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instrument... DAPHNE ROSE KINGMA we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are very proud of what we have accomplished in only three years, and this is just the beginning. ... EILEEN BERMAN We focus our enforcement actions on operations that are behaving in the most fraudulent and deceptiv... CINDY EHNES
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CHRIS MARTIN Keep your enemies in front of you CHRIS MATTHEWS What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim... CHRIS ABANI There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr... CHRIS CRUTCHER ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b... CHRIS CRUTCHER Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. CHRIS BRADFORD There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. CHRIS HEIMERDINGER In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy. CHRIS BRADFORD You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black gu... CHRIS ROCK You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to... CHRIS STEWART I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers... CHRIS CLEAVE Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no l... CHRIS BRADFORD seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll CHRIS BRADFORD The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it. CHRIS BRADFORD You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that y... CHRIS ROCK Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched. CHRIS O'DONNELL Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going... CHRIS BOWKETT If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is im... CHRIS EVERT Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. CHRIS EVERT Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and ... CHRIS PATTEN Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are... CHRIS LYONS In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. CHRIS PATTEN Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. CHRIS EVERT If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. CHRIS EVERT URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. CHRIS CLARK I always looked ahead. CHRIS EVERT Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. ... CHRIS ROCK You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beau... CHRIS CARRABBA An open book is an open mind" -Charles Chiltington CHRIS GRABENSTEIN Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public libra... CHRIS GRABENSTEIN Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to co... 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