# High-Impact Teams

## Metadata
- Author: [[Lance Witt]]
- Full Title: High-Impact Teams
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ([Location 297](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=297))
- Synergy is “the interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.”1 Synergy is what happens when teams are able to be both healthy and high performing. ([Location 311](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=311))
- The best teams are both healthy and high performing. They get along well and they get stuff done. They have a life-giving culture and a result-producing outcome. They have minimal dysfunction and maximum production. They focus on relationship and results. ([Location 314](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=314))
- For those of us wired on the health side of the equation, the key word is relationship. ([Location 340](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=340))
- The most difficult, obstinate, flaky, rebellious person you will ever lead is yourself. Implicit in the idea of self-leadership is the notion that you are responsible for leading yourself. ([Location 410](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=410))
- Nothing is more internally conflicting than trying to inspire people to be passionate about God when you have little or no passion yourself. ([Location 496](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=496))
- I can relate to Henri Nouwen’s words as he writes of his own spiritual struggles after years of ministry: I began to experience a deep inner threat. As I entered my fifties and was able to realize the unlikelihood of doubling my years, I came face to face with the simple question, ‘Did becoming older bring me closer to Jesus?’ After twenty-five years of priesthood, I found myself praying poorly, living somewhat isolated from other people, and very much pre-occupied with burning issues. Everyone was saying that I was doing really well, but something inside was telling me that my success was putting my own soul in danger.1 ([Location 502](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=502))
- When you don’t pay attention to your soul, you naturally end up putting all your focus on the externals of your life. You feed and fuel the doing side of your life while starving the being side. ([Location 556](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=556))
- I am finally beginning to learn that people who are emotional adolescents will never be great team leaders. ([Location 572](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=572))
- Some of the qualities people applaud in your life are the very things that can wreck your soul. ([Location 592](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=592))
- The French author François Fénelon writes, “We have an amazing ability to self-deceive. Your self-interest hides in a million clever disguises.”4 ([Location 622](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=622))
- Noah BenShea writes, “It’s the space between the notes that makes the music.”1 The same is true of life. We must have space (rhythm) between the notes of busyness and ministry to make life work as God designed it. ([Location 687](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=687))
- Nothing is made to constantly produce. Everything God ever created needs rest and restoration. ([Location 714](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=714))
- It has taken me years to learn this, but there is a huge difference between a to-do list and a must-do list. ([Location 1143](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07933KCYB&location=1143))