You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Steve Case’s remark balances two leadership imperatives that can seem in tension: interpersonal harmony and productive difference. “Getting along” points to the social skills needed to collaborate—listening, negotiating, and maintaining trust—while the “strength of a team” is framed as diversity of viewpoint and temperament rather than uniformity. The quote implicitly warns against confusing cohesion with sameness: teams that avoid friction by hiring or rewarding only like-minded people may lose creativity, resilience, and the ability to spot risks. Case’s emphasis on perspectives and personalities also suggests that effective leaders design environments where disagreement is channeled into better decisions rather than personal conflict.