J. Richard Hackman famous quotes

When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.
-- J. Richard Hackman

#Teamwork #Motivation #Commitment

Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.
-- J. Richard Hackman

#Opportunity #Two #Diversity

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.
-- J. Richard Hackman

#Thinking #Yield #Feet

I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary But don't count on it.
-- J. Richard Hackman

#Team #Magic #Possibility

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.