It can’t be but it is!
Think about it, the whole is greater than the sum of
the parts.
This is like saying 2+2 is not four but more.
Synergy means that things work together.
Words can’t explain the essence of this. We know it
and want it but what and how do we get it?
For
a long time, the known world had no thought of synergy. The second law of
thermodynamics dominated. It stated that everything will increase in entropy.
In
other words, disintegration is the way of the world and chaos is destiny.
And
since we are of the world, well then ….the way and end are clear.
Buckminster
Fuller had another idea. The second law of thermodynamics was incomplete.
Although
we have decay, we also have growth. What about the creation of life in the
womb?
He studied systems in transition from the beginning to the end. He concluded that the behavior of the whole cannot be predicted by the behavior of any isolated component.
For example, you cannot understand an avalanche by studying
snowflakes.
He
focused his research on the growth or what he called emergent behavior in
systems.
Jeffrey Goldstein defines this emergent behavior as: "the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems".
In other words,
in any system with a few set rules, something new can emerge that is more than
the sum of its parts.
Like a sports team that plays the game of its
life at exactly the right time to win the great prize.
Or like a
down and out song writer who pens an immortal song.
By
accident or design? Perhaps both.
The
accident we can do nothing about.
We can do
something about the design.
Integrity
and synergy are interrelated and interconnected.
I
define integrity as doing the right thing, doing the next right thing and doing
things the right way.
Synergy
means that things work together. Things work together when they are done right.
Synergy
then is a natural outcome of integrity.
What
does this mean? How does that work?
Doing
the right thing is transparent.
All
things are revealed. Nothing is hidden
The
energy invested in deception is released into conception. It is a beginning not
an end.
Doing
the right thing is being authentic. In other words, it is truthful.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Doing
the next right thing is next thing you do after you do the right thing.
It
is this emergent behavior that creates the chain reaction..
Energy
is released in each successive right action. Momentum increases. Tipping points
are reached.
Doing
things the right way is about objectivity or purity.
Less
is more.
Less
waste, less baggage and less mistakes.
More
economies, more efficiencies, and more effectiveness.
So where do you start to build synergy into
your life?
Start in the simple, the small, the ordinary.
Take
care of the little things; the big things will take care of themselves.
That
is synergy
And
synergy is an outcome of integrity.
Douglas
Ross is father, husband, businessman and an advocate for integrity. He is the
creator of The Practice of Integrity and Results through Integrity.
Want
to learn more? Contact me at principledynamics@comcast.net
or call me at 706-267-0609. I want to
speak to you about integrity and how it can help you and all of us.


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