Habit 6 - Synergize #TBT

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US today!

This week's post is going back to this day last year, to the middle of a series of posts on "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" plus Habit 8.

From www.stephencovey.com:

To put it simply, synergy means "two heads are better than one." Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. But it doesn't just happen on its own. It's a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table. Together, they can produce far better results that they could individually. Synergy lets us discover jointly things we are much less likely to discover by ourselves. It is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. One plus one equals three, or six, or sixty--you name it. 

When people begin to interact together genuinely, and they're open to each other's influence, they begin to gain new insight. The capability of inventing new approaches is increased exponentially because of differences. 

Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.

Habits 1 - 3 were the Private Victory, while Habits 4 - 6 were the Public Victory:

Habit 7 will tie them all together.

Monday - Habit 1 - Be Proactive

Tuesday - Habit 2 - Begin with the End in Mind

Wednesday - Habit 3 - Put First Things First

Thursday - Habit 4 - Think Win-win

Monday - Habit 5 - Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood

Tuesday - Habit 6 - Synergize

Wednesday - Habit 7 - Sharpen the Saw

Thursday - The 8th Habit - Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs

Interesting days

Today - Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

Tomorrow - Flossing Day, Maize Day, Parfait Day, Buy Nothing Day, Systems Engineer Day and Shopping Reminder Day

December - Operation Santa Paws, Write a Business Plan Month, Human Rights Month and Tie Month 

Next Thursday - World AIDS Day and Eat A Red Apple Day

December 24 - Egg Nog Day