life on planet earth on Teamwork

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

To live well is to work well.

Here is the uncomfortable truth: Humans run to a much slower evolutionary clock than our inventions. To use an engineering term, we are the “gating factor” that keeps a process from running faster. It...

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

We all want to feel like we come together as equals, with each of us bringing something unique and vital to the table. That’s how friendship works: we join forces, knowing each of us has something to ...

True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

A Multi-faceted Church Who loses by the church and parachurch’s lack of unity and cooperation? Absolutely everyone : congregations, ministry organizations, ministry leaders, individual believers . ....

When I was in Germany speaking at a church, a blind woman named Elizabeth served as my interpreter. You can imagine the two of us on stage—me with my wheelchair and Elizabeth with her white cane. Duri...

Sharan Merriam and Carolyn Clark, in their fine study Lifelines , effectively show that life is fundamentally about two things—our work and our relationships. And maturity is found in having the c...

Gracious God, you have called us to be a unified body, working together that which you have willed for the world. In our apathy, we fail to participate in the work you have called us to do. In our div...

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

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 r...

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

There are walls that need to come down. You can pray unity but then you have to work unity by demonstrating what unity really looks like.

True giving is participating, participating in the life and work of the donee, participating in one’s universe as a sympathizing member. No one can participate without giving first. Giving is essentia...

I remember playing a game as a child in which we would bend one knee and grab our foot behind us and then try to race—limping, stumbling and falling over as we struggled across the grass toward a fini...

Leader: Arise! Shine! Christ’s Church has assembled. People: We are one body, with Christ as our head. Leader: What kind of body is this? People: The Body of Christ, brought together not by huma...

The Double Helix, James Watson’s 1968 memoir about discovering the structure of DNA, describes the roller coaster of emotions he and Francis Crick experienced through the progress and setbacks of the ...

Almost all of us feel torn by the things we want to do, by the demands placed on us, by the many responsibilities we have.

No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness...

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

We were created to communicate, to speak truth fully to one another, so that we might be members of one another. To be members of one another means we must learn to trust one another. Trust, like trut...

We must use time creatively.

We keep bringing in mechanics when what we need are gardeners.

There can be more genuine fellowship among those who share the same disposition than among those who share the same beliefs, especially if that disposition is toward kindness and generosity

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.