John Katzenbach Quotes

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team’s purpose and performance aspirations.

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

Real teams don’t emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.