„Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.“

„But most great accomplishments, human accomplishments, they're done as a group. And you're job as a leader then, is to be able to assemble to bring together people in a common vision.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

Remarks by the President in YSEALI Town Hall at Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 20, 2015) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/20/remarks-president-yseali-town-hall
2015
Contexto: And I think the job of a leader is not to try to do everything yourself, but it's to try to organize people, each of whom have different talents and skills. Make sure that they are joined in a common vision about what needs to get done, but then go ahead and let them -- give them the tools so that they can do what they need to do. [... ] Very few things, great things are done by yourself. Maybe if you're a Picasso or Mozart you can go off into a room and you can produce great things. But most great accomplishments, human accomplishments, they're done as a group. And you're job as a leader then, is to be able to assemble to bring together people in a common vision.

„The essential task of management is to arrange organizational conditions and methods of operations so that people can achieve their own goals best by directing their own efforts toward organizational objectives.“

—  Douglas McGregor American professor 1906 - 1964

Fuente: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 178

„Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
Contexto: People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways. […] Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.

„By the term individual I shall mean that in which each of us is peculiarly himself. I shall emphasize not what is common is us, but what is uncommon, and this leads me to a restatement of our question. In considering what is happening to the individual, I shall discuss what in modern civilization is happening to the uncommon in us. Are we becoming more common or more uncommon? Are the common people destroying the uncommon? Is the public self of us crushing out the personal self? Are we being directed more from without than from within? As our group memberships grow larger, do we as persons tend to grow smaller? Do the tendencies of the present day, mass movements, social organization, publicity, public education, emphasize the unique in man, or enhance the dominance of undifferentiated man acting as mass?“

—  Everett Dean Martin 1880 - 1941

Fuente: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 9

„In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working toward rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.“

—  Gregory Colbert Canadian photographer 1960

"Nature's Living Masterpieces" in Camera Arts (July 2005)
Contexto: In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working toward rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals. The images depict a world that is without beginning or end, here or there, past or present. I hope that the overall effect is an experience of wonder and contemplation, serenity and hope.

„A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas“

—  Arie de Geus Dutch businessman 1930

Arie de Geus, in: " Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader http://www.strategy-business.com/article/17421?gko=cedb2," in: Strategy & Business. April 1, 2001, Nr 22-25. p. 26

„The welfare state disempowered working class people people by taking away their ability to self-organise, by taking away their ability to work with each other. It atomised working class communities and also prevented innovation and aspiration for those at the bottom.“

—  Phillip Blond British philosopher 1966

„The key element of an organization is not a building or a set of policies and procedures; organizations are made up of people and their relationships with one another. An organization exists when people interact with one another to perform essential functions that help attain goals. Recent trends in management recognize the importance of human resources, with most new approaches designed to empower employees with greater opportunities to learn and contribute as they work together toward common goals.“

—  Richard L. Daft American sociologist 1964

Fuente: Organization Theory and Design, 2007-2010, p. 10

„In addition to technical problems, systems also have organizational and logistical problems. Many different people may be involved over a wide physical or geographic coverage and over a long period of time. Many may work for different companies or organizations with different rules and methods of operating. Very many data and much knowledge are involved. The organizational problem concerns itself with the question of how all these people can work together most effectively for the common purpose.“

—  Harold Chestnut American engineer 1917 - 2001

Fuente: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 24; First paragraph of Ch. 2. System Organization, Scheduling, and Record-Keeping

„If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere – let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.“

—  Paul Robeson American singer and actor 1898 - 1976

Daily Worker (15 November 1945)

„The challenge for Labour is that there’s huge support for working class, from mining communities, from northern working class communities for UKIP, which wouldn’t be the case if they were a straightforward Thatcherite party. So an ability to engage with the rage and dispossession people feel is absolutely necessary for constructive politics. And how do you build a common good between locals and immigrants? How do you build a common good between north and south, between the small towns and cities? We’re not thinking of the levels of abandonment that people feel, and UKIP express that.“

—  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman British philosopher 1961

Maurice Glasman on Democracy, creative destruction and Wolf Hall https://soundcloud.com/university-of-cambridge/1-maurice-glasman-on-democracy

„In a world in which training and functions of individuals and groups are growing more and more specialized the number of ways to accomplish any particular result increasing. Different design, different facilities, different equipment, different methods, and different organizational means are available to meet the needs of man. It is highly desirable that we have trained persons look at these varied possibilities to compare their effectiveness, and to point the way to sound engineering decisions. Systems Engineering Methods is directed towards the development of a broad systems engineering approach to help such people improve their decision-making capability. Although the emphasis is on engineering, the systems approach can also has validity for many other areas in which emphasis may be social, economic, or political.“

—  Harold Chestnut American engineer 1917 - 2001

Fuente: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. vii

„As a people, we have not been able to chart a clear map toward a common destiny. We will not be able to do this if our leaders continue to promote sectional and separate development.“

—  Epeli Ganilau Fijian politician 1951

Guest speech to the conference of the Fiji Labour Party, Lautoka, 30 July 2005

„There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us.“

—  Theodore Kaczynski American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist 1942

Fuente: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2016), p. 1

„Average companies give their people something to work on. In contrast, the most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.“

—  Simon Sinek British/American author and motivational speaker 1973

Fuente: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

„All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.“

—  Brian Tracy American motivational speaker and writer 1944

Fuente: Personal Success

„But if we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love. Yet whatever it loves, if only it is an assemblage of reasonable beings and not of beasts, and is bound together by an agreement as to the objects of love, it is reasonably called a people; and it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.“

—  Aurelius Augustinus, libro The City of God

XIX, 24
The City of God (early 400s)

„People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).“

—  Carlos Gershenson Mexican researcher 1978

Chorninky Notes (January 2010 - )

„Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.“

—  Angela Davis American political activist, scholar, and author 1944

"For a People's Culture." Political Affairs, March 1995.