BUS 528 Week 10 Assignment A-1

Assignment A-1

Chapter 10 ideas- Building a High Performance Project Team

Synergy - is the only word that i can describe about this Chapter that will help to cultivate a high competent & performance team.

What is Synergy?

- defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently.

For example:

Adam alone is too short to reach an apple on a tree and Bob is too short as well. But if Bob sits on the shoulders of Adam or vice versa, they will be tall enough to reach the apple. Therefore, their synergy (teamwork) enable them to pluck the apple.

Another example:

If you assign Mick to draw a house by providing him a pen and a paper. Below may likely be the result.

House drawing by Mick with a pen and paper

If you assign Mick to draw a ' dream house'. This time :

• you provide him not only a piece of paper and pen, but also colouring tools, ruler, eraser and etc.
• You also send Mick to Autocad Training.
• You create a team of expert (teammates) to help Mick by providing idea of adding swimming pool, draw in 3D, big houses with windows, staircases, big garden etc.
• At the same time, the team will support and guide Mick from behind by motivating and encouraging him.
• Below drawing may likely be the results of the synergy.

House drawn by Mick with provision of tools/ resources/ team support

Performance Synergy is the effective use of material and human resources to make great things happen to meet the mission, vision, goals and values of the team and organization.

It require everything and everyone to be in “sync” - The right people, the right corporate culture/ idea and the right skill set/ framework as illustrated below.

Some interesting fact about synergy - by Lao Tzu. He was one of the greatest philosopher of China, or of the world.
He emphasizes the teaching of Synergy that incorporate with the human and nature elements.

One of his teaching example:
4 continuous steps of Life-Business Synergy:

1. Discover your higher self, mission and passion
2. Define your vision and goals
3. Design your wheel of life or business model or framework.
4. Make a difference, do what you love and satisfy doing, keep going and learning.