Choose your companions before you choose your road.

Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.