More than anything else, ROSA is about teamwork. The idea that together we can achieve objectives that we wish for but that we know we can’t accomplish on our own is a breath of fresh air.Many people believe that this overdevelopment is a “done deal” and nothing can be done to fix it. Nothing could be further from the truth.  In a very short period of time, ROSA has altered the playing field and is fighting on points of merit.

ROSA wants everyone to be inspired by a message of hope.  We want everyone to be galvanized at the idea of how much we can accomplish when we work together, and pool our resources.

None of us is as smart as all of us. (Ken Blanchard)

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” (Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL)

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. (Henry Ford)

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary. (Bruce Coslet, Coach, Bengals)

Conflict is inevitable in a team … in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict. (Susan Gerke, IBM, Leadership Development)

We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin)

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people. (Stephen Covey)

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential…the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons. (Max DePree)

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? (R. Meredith Belbin)

The path to greatness is along with others. (Baltasar Gracion, Spanish Priest)

Teams share the burden and divide the grief. (Doug Smith)

The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team. (Coach Phil Jackson Chicago Bulls)

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. (Norman Shidle)

Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust. (Dennis Kinlaw)

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects. (Buchholz and Roth)

A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take. (Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.)

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. (Mark Twain)

Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success. (Ned Lautenbach)

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth. (Dennis Kinlaw)

Working together works. (Dr. Rob Gilbert)

Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8. (Sandra Richardson, OD Consultant)

Men have never been individually self-sufficient. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity… to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. (Paul McCartney)

Katzenbach & Smith
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.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. (Margaret Carty)

Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. (Vince Lombardi, football coach for the NFL (1913-1970))

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. (B. Dodge)

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. (Dr. Allan Fromme)

Win together, lose together, play together, stay together. (Debra Mancuso)

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

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. (Unknown)

TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More (Unknown)

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. (Andrew Carnegie)

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.(Unknown)