Cooperation is Essential to Success in 21st Century Business

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Ward

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

The age of managers and workers has passed. Enterprises of the 21st century, especially those in high technology fields, are successful only when everyone interacts on a cooperative basis. The most valuable and creative employees have discovered life beyond the office. Pure salary has lost it’s power as a motivator. The most successful companies fully engage their entire staff – at all levels – as committed partners in the success of the business.

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