Wisdom of the community

This Sunday, we continue our series What is Wisdom, where we’ve been exploring the essential ingredients of wisdom.  Each week so far, one voice has offered a perspective. This week, we’ll turn to the collective—hearing a variety of shorter, mini-perspectives from within our own community.  In community, wisdom isn’t added, it’s multiplied!  Join us as we uncover some of the wisdom that lives among us!

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Reading

Extract from: Franklin Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

Summary of Habit 6: Synergize

“To put it simply, synergy means “two heads are better than one.” Synergise 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 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 than 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.”

— FranklinCovey