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Friday, December 02, 2005

Synergy and Flow at Base in Brief

Check out this thought-provoking post by our friend Felix!

We are branded continuously by our actions. If we are conscious of this, as Goffman asserts, and we act to censor ourselves, then we are continuously branding ourselves.

It sounds like a lot of effort. And it is. Some are better at dealing with this than others. When two or more people have synergy, this overhead, this self-censorship, is less necessary.

When we are ourselves, when we act with integrity, the branding effort, the development of our reputation, is more natural, and with others, the forming and storming and norming of the team flows. This is the stuff of synergy.

Synergy and flow at base, in brief, is begot by character.

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