My Most Recent Memo

TO: Pam Stovak
FROM: Vince D’Agostino
DATE: 22 March 2011
SUBJECT: Teamwork Memo

Last Thursday you asked us to review the “Teamwork Quotes and Proverbs” handout and then select our favorite three. My top three are:
1. “It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit”- Unknown
-I thought that this quote was very true. When you’re working with a team, you shouldn’t worry about who is doing the most and who is getting recognized. In the end as long as everyone does their best, everyone will be recognized.
2. “We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”- Benjamin Franklin
-I like this quote because it is true for teams. If the team is going to win, everyone will win. If the team is going to lose, everyone loses. Nobody goes at it alone.
3. “Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement”- Marvin Weisbord
-This quote is very true for the country today. The United States always has been a nation of people that prefer to work by themselves so that they may see the success only for themselves. This quote is a good way of saying that teamwork is a way of breaking that habit.
Overall, I really did like this assignment. After finishing it, I actually found out that I learned a little bit about teamwork that I didn’t already know. What I took away from this assignment is that you shouldn’t be in the spotlight when on a team. In fact, teams seem to work the best when everybody does their part equally.