Synergy means that 1+1 = 8, 16, or even 1600.

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After World War 2, the United States commissioned David Lilienthal to head the new AEC.

(Atomic Energy Commission)

Lilienthal brought in a group of highly influential people, disciples of their own frames of reference.
This group, diverse as they come, had a heavy agenda, and were impatient to get at it.

But before anything, Lilienthal took several weeks to create a ‘High Emotional Bank Account’

He had these people get to know each other.
Their Interests - Hopes - Goals - Concerns - Backgrounds - Frames of Mind - Paradigms -

He facilitated the kind of human interaction that creates great bonding between people,

And was heavily criticized for for taking time time do to it because it wasn’t “efficient”.
The Result :

This group became closely knit together, open with each other, creative and synergistic.

The respect among the members of the commission was so high that if there was a disagreement,

Instead of defense and opposition,

There was a genuine effort to understand.
The attitude was:

“If a person of your intelligence, competence, and commitment disagrees with me,

Then there must be something to your disagreement that I don’t understand, and I need to.”

“You have a perspective or frame of reference that I need to look at.
Non Protective interaction developed.

A momentous culture was born.

Leading to greatness.

Compromise means that 1+1 = 1½

Synergy means that 1+1 = Infinity.

A position of high trust in your group produces solutions better than any originally proposed.

All parties know it
Credits to Stephen Covey for the ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
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