The Parts Are Greater than the Sum

Say What?

You didn’t misread that.

I know, we’ve always been taught that the sum is greater than the parts. The United States of America is greater than Alabama, Wyoming and the states alphabetically in between. A-Rod’s ten year, $275 million contract is more than the sum of Rodriguez’s hitting, fielding, throwing and steroid enhanced abilities. I get it. But synergy claims the opposite and its definition takes us right back around the bases to A-Rod.

Synergy (noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects.

You can’t say dictionaries are not up to date on the latest steroid or performance drug. Synergy is the love-child of the corporate conglomerate. Every corporate raider out there (

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published: 13. 4. 2014

Datum publikace:
13. 4. 2014
Autor článku:
Jim Freeman