Habit 6 Synergize

This was the hardest habit for me to understand. I think this is because synergy is not a common practice today, but also because I felt his examples in this chapter were more abstract. A lot of his examples did not have a clear solution in which the people used synergy. For example, when the husband and the wife were having problems he ended the story with himself saying, "You must have valued the differences." That is more the definition of synergy, not showing how the husband and wife used synergy to solve their problem.

The one part of this chapter I really liked was the story about the animals. I thought it was a good representation of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts because each animal had its own unique talents or parts. However, they did not take advantage of these talents and the end result was negative. This can be related to the Army because every soldier has their own strengths and as a leader if you recognize these strengths and capitalize upon them your group will have a stronger whole.